Word: heros
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perhaps the silent hero for the Crimson on the season has been freshman goalkeeper Cheryl Gunther. Gunther made seven saves against BYU on the afternoon for her second shutout of the season, and was named Ivy League rookie of the Week for her play on the weekend...
...Star Called Henry (Viking; 343 pages; $24.95), Roddy Doyle's new novel about the birth of the modern Irish nation, begins with the vivid miseries of its hero, young Henry Smart, who is named for a dead brother whom his grieving mother can't forget. The time is the turn of the century, a dreary hiatus between a past of colonial starvation and a future of war and revolution. Henry's father, a one-legged Dublin bully-boy who free-lances as the doorman at a brothel, can't support the family, so Henry runs wild, stealing from shopkeepers, sleeping...
Identifying a character and a country Yankee Doodle Dandy style is an old, but difficult, device. Doyle may as well have invented it, however, given his skill in putting it to work. In a style both brawling and lyrical, blunt and acute, he sets his hero adrift on a swirling current of love and politics. By age 14, Henry is fighting in the streets with martyrs of the Easter Rising, lashing out against the English enemy with an anarchic, adolescent recklessness that barely knows what it's fighting for or why. Instead of self-awareness, Henry has guts; instead...
...humor in any of his antics. However, I finally settled down to watch this young genius at work [SHOW BUSINESS, Sept. 13]. He makes me laugh (to the point of hysterics) but also touches on subject matter that is highly political. Only he could have invited anti-affirmative action hero Ward Connerly on his TV show to tell him why we need affirmative action more than ever. When Chris Rock makes a joke, we should all listen. No one today can tell it the way he does! LINDA J. ROBERTSON Oakland, Calif...
...kids' novel about a plucky orphan who is not Harry Potter? What awful timing! Happily, though, Curtis (a Newbery Medal honoree) has conjured a hero just as mesmerizing but grittier. Ten-year-old Bud Caldwell ditches his foster home in Depression-era Flint, Mich., and heads for the jazz clubs of Grand Rapids in search of his long-lost dad. A gentle diva, based on Flint's own Betty Carter, shows Bud that a family exists whenever folks decide to stick together. Kids will take to Bud's hilarious advice for "becoming a better liar." But be warned: they...