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...wind-driven rain slanted in from the northeast and kept building until the eye of typhoon Hester passed over Chu Lai. home of the Americal Division. At one point, the officers' handball-court roof was seen flying end over end through the air: the roof of the officers' club went piecemeal. The house of Major General Frederick J. Kroesen, the division commander, simply blew apart. In the confusion of crumbling buildings and hangars, one man died, eleven were injured and 33 helicopters were damaged beyond repair. In all, Hester wreaked more havoc on the base in 24 hours...
Minor Jocasta. After a black activist is lynched, the town, with an eye on that Northern industry, finally commits itself to a posture of creeping liberalism. In the community named for her family, Hester is left as alone as a carpetbagger...
Worse, the Old Guard is changing too. When the Confederate monument across from the courthouse is vandalized, nobody except Hester appears in any hurry to restore...
Author Jones plays it both ways. Hester is clearly wrong. Her code has produced a monster of a younger son-a clean-cut all-American fanatic. Until she sees him for what he is, until she finds herself allied only to despised rednecks, Hester has been a bit of a monster herself -a moral as well as a social snob...
...moving-a special kind of theater. And what is that exotic yet all too familiar sound in a reader's ear? Somewhere in the mythic South, where white pillars are carved with graffiti by Tennessee Williams, Margaret Leighton is warming up her Old Vic-Southern accent. Stand by, Hester...