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This contretemps calls for a bit of explaining, and Garcia Marquez flashes backward to tell all. A half-century of solitude earlier, Florentino enjoys a passionate, three-year romance with the schoolgirl Fermina, conducted entirely through the exchange of clandestine letters. His swooning preoccupation and physical distress arouse concern: "His...
So should Infinite in All Directions, even though it is a revised version of a series of academic talks delivered at the University of Aberdeen in 1985 and hence an unlikely candidate for popular appeal. But Dyson is not the first person to turn a Gifford lectureship in Scotland into...
Everything in House seems to be a perversion. Bunny says she is a lousy lay but a great cook, so she sleeps with Artie but won't even pour his cornflakes until after they're married. Preven gives an incredible performance, consistently portraying Artie's fluctuations from funny to pathetic...
Edge admits that she knew little about Harvard and its illustrious squash history. Accepted by a number of schools--including Harvard, Princeton and several Canadian universities--Edge had to make a very difficult decision.
Hah. The publisher's only sensible gamble, of course, was that Rothchild would lose. Had the nearly impossible happened and Rothchild transformed his modest pile into $5 million or $10 million, the book project would have lost its urgency. If he had finished the year with, say, $25,500, a...