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Luckily, I’m not a teenager and thus technically can no longer identify with Jay McGraw’s life strategies or weight loss tips, as potentially life-altering as they may be. On the other hand, if I’m husbandless at age 35, I can rest assured that the elves will know who to call come Christmastime...
When Chloe arrives, odd woman out, Western and husbandless in the tight society of Iranian and American couples at the medical dormitories, she finds that Hugh is unaccountably missing. She takes pleasure in her disappointment: "With Hugh not there she could pay in advance for anticipated pleasures, pay by uncertainty, solitude, and serious study, in a land hostile to women, far from her children, in an ugly room. What destiny could then begrudge her just a little fling?" Such a question, in the context of Iran, turns out to be poignantly beside the point...
Departing from her usual practice of zinging brash, hostile questions at world leaders, Italian Journalist Oriana Fallaci has turned philosopher-novelist. Her new book, Letter to a Child Never Born, to be published in English next month by Simon & Schuster, is the monologue of a nameless, husbandless professional delivered to her unborn child. The baby dies in the womb, but not before its mother probes her own motives for childbearing and the infant's right to be born. "This is a story about a doubt, the biggest of all-whether or not to bring a human being into...
...would take a Ph.D. in bureaucracy and creative sloth for a harried family to collect such riches. All the same, it does turn the work ethic upside down. The real issue is not so much those who avoid work as those who seek it and cannot find it-those husbandless mothers in particular who, for lack of day-care centers, cannot go to a job even when one is available...
...sisters feel for a fellow who has been so close to death (pneumonia) that his body was once washed for a funeral. They lived in a tumble-down house in the Cotswolds, but mother and children-at least by Author Lee's account -never indulged in self-pity. Husbandless Mrs. Lee-erratic, forgetful, sometimes downright dotty, but forever cooking and mending for the brood-comes through as a genuine heroine. Her son has performed the feat of conveying her love, and his, without once slipping into the treacle that sons find almost impossible to avoid when they praise...