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...club to raise her son Kurt and to keep the fallow farm where her widowed mother bitterly awaits death. Part II is Kurt's account of Mother Marge's struggles, her drinking and her unhousebroken boyfriends, including a Sioux sheep rancher. The novel concludes with a hint of contrivance as the title, Leaving the Land, takes on a resonant double meaning: the inevitability of departures and the promise of continuity...
...might be cerebral," muses one female crook, "but not about women." With a dash of irony and a hint of irreverence, Ann Cornelisen puts that theory to the test in her puckish new novel. Determined to tease men out of their cozy gallantry, and also to expose Italy's rococo inefficiency, a sextet of foreign women in a sleepy Tuscan village decide to rob a local mail train. Plotting the crime as if it were a script, they adopt literary aliases, don disguises and then, without much difficulty, carry off the million-dollar theft. The lackadaisical local police force...
...hazards of development only hint at the complexity of the questions facing Indians like Russell Means. In the Reagan Administration's drive for a new "federalism," the Indians appear to be regaining a tremendous-many say overwhelming--amount of jurisdiction over their economic and governmental affairs. But it is not clear that this independence, which would appear to be precisely what many Indians want, will do much to get at their fundamental problems of alcoholism, poverty, and isolation...
...relationship between the lovers. Dede and Nicole, provides a marvelous contract to the rest of Belleville. At one point we see Dede sneaking up to Nicole who is gobbling down some cake at a patisserie. "I am cooking leveret stuffed with pistachios, parsley, and a hint of garlic for dinner. "Two leverets," he protests. Baye and Leotard manage to make an incongruous relationship seem convincing and touching. The very thing that makes the couple so vulnerable to both the gangsters and the police alike, their mutual loyalty is at the some time, the only positive thing in the story...
...Dallas, Orlando and Tulsa, have been angered by what many regard as the agency's left-wing theology and politics. Next week a rival mission board, the Mission Society for United Methodists, will open for business in Atlanta with $150,000 donated by large churches, and the hint of much more to come. "We can no longer support the direction in which the board has gone," says Ira Gallaway, a Peoria, Ill., pastor who is secretary of the new mission society...