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...when Livesey portrays that most vulnerable side of Hazel Ransome's mind under attack, our natural impulse is to fear for her safety. Hazel, the amnesiac at the center of things, loses her memory, and in an improbable web of deceit, her ex-fianc Jonathan scrambles to keep it hidden. During a phone call with Jonathan, Hazel goes unconscious for a short while, slips into violent seizures, then reawakens with no memory of the last three years. Those three years were traumatically eventful-she fought with her lover over his infidelities, moved out of his apartment and appeared...

Author: By Graeme Wood, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A World On the Other Side of the Lethe | 3/3/2000 | See Source »

...rest of the novel unfolds emotionally and sometimes comically. Jonathan, a beekeeper and insurance adjuster of low character, sees his opening: he keeps Hazel in his home, trying desperately to keep Hazel ignorant of their disputes. Meanwhile, an eclectic bunch comes to her rescue: Freddie, a black American roofer, Charlotte, an out-of-work actress and inveterate moocher, and Mr. Early, a designer of mannequin parts...

Author: By Graeme Wood, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A World On the Other Side of the Lethe | 3/3/2000 | See Source »

...driving tension behind The Missing World-a tension that gets tiresome quickly-is Jonathan's torment at having to reveal the truth about his relationship with Hazel. He wants her back, and will take advantage of her amnesia to win her back. He agonizes over his decisions, but always manages to rationalize keeping her in the dark...

Author: By Graeme Wood, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A World On the Other Side of the Lethe | 3/3/2000 | See Source »

Just two weeks ago, the program's chair, Hazel V. Carby, resigned, saying Yale President Richard Levin had disparaged the program by comparing it unfavorably with Harvard's Afro-American studies department. She also said Yale's refusal to recognize the program as a department was a factor in her decision to resign...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Yale African American Studies Program Receives Department Status, More Money | 2/25/2000 | See Source »

...Hazel Carby rescinded her resignation as chair of Yale's African and African-American Studies Program last night, vowing to work with Yale administrators to improve the program's status on campus...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Carby Will Return as Yale Af-Am Chair | 2/16/2000 | See Source »

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