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LIKE HER earlier novels, Southern Discomfort is redolent of feminism. Most major characters are women, several of whom exhibit great strength and independence, although none are idealized. This offers acute timeless insights into the limits and opportunities available to women bound by traditional societies, revealing hidden heroism and behind-the-scenes sisterhood. Several of the men are appealing, but Brown does not focus on them. A few become three-dimensional and believable, such as Hercules father, sunk into passive resignation because of a harsh life. Brown avoids flat, stock figures, but her male characters are generally not as fully fleshed...
...touched up the PT 109 story to increase his heroism, and pocketed a Pulitzer Prize (through his father's influence) for a book he did not actually write. A reader of second-rate adventure books, he became the darling of the intellectual and had them singing hosannas to the glorious power of the presidency. Finally, he got us into Vietnam with gusto, saw it as the perfect testing ground for his beloved counter-insurgency techniques...
...Water" and the story of Convict-Celebrity Jack Henry Abbott portray the astonishing range of human character under stress. The man in the Potomac responded to unyielding nature with transcendent heroism. Abbott is accused of reacting to an indifferent society with random viciousness...
...YEARS LATER, after a couple of internal military coups have turned the freedom granted to Bangladesh to ashes, the lineup of sides has lost its meaning. India's strong-willed prime minister, for all her apparent heroism in 1971, can hardly claim that the intervening decade has shown her in flattering light. This time ten years ago, the streets of Dacca resounded with exultant chants of Joi Bangla (Victory to Bengal) and the nation welcomed back its imprisoned leader, Sheik Mujib. Today, even in Dacca, it is unlikely that people bother to remember the hope that...
...river to rescue a survivor of the Air Florida crash. Overnight he became a national celebrity, besieged by thousands of letters from admirers, scores of interview requests and more than a dozen invitations from organizations wanting to honor him. To the President, he was a symbol of American heroism...