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...Talk About Love (1981); Cathedral (1983); and Where I'm Calling From (1988). Carver's stories also became a staple in Esquire during the 1970s and the New Yorker in the '80s. His voice--spare, understated, unsentimental--and his typical subject matter--moments of truth in the lives of hard-luck men and women who know they are failing in a country consecrated to success--became immediately recognizable. Carver resisted the trend toward gentrification in U.S. fiction, the Jamesian notion that only those with fine-tuned sensibilities and no money worries have the leisure to mess up their lives...
Tubridy had a similar and equally commendable reaction to the loss. Hailing from New York City high school powerhouse Christ the King, Tubridy knows all about what it takes to win. A few hard-luck losses won't keep her from having fun and believing that things will turn around...
...account of Daru's slow and painful descent from yuppie respectability to scumminess. But Moth Smoke never gets cumbersome, and even at its most heavy, the narrators are a sympathetic and colorful bunch. They are all, by Pakistani standards, moneyed and elite. (Even Daru, the novel's hard-luck case, has a servant boy.) Most everyone has a sport-utility vehicle to negotiate the rotting streets of Lahore, a city without enough public works to take care of its roads. Indeed, the novel at times seems like a huge smear campaign against Range Rovers and Pajeros--the characters who drive...
Most of the visitors cramming the hallways were the usual hard-luck suspects, some of the estimated 44 million Americans who have no health insurance and nowhere else to go. But many others were a relatively new breed: refugees from managed care--which managed not to be available to them. "More people seem to be told, 'We can't see you until next week,'" says Dr. Kathryn Perkins, who has watched annual patient volume at Thunderbird's ED nearly double in the past five years. "When nobody will see them, they come here...
Although sophomore righthander John Birtwell, the Ivy League Pitcher of the Year who finished 4-5 with a team-best 2.83 ERA, battled over 7.1 innings, allowing just three earned runs, his mates stuck him with another hard-luck loss, one of several he suffered this year because of meager run support...