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...narrative slows. On the trip east he meets Sister Maria, a Chinese nun "not so much pretty as perfect." She somehow teaches him Cantonese in six weeks, they become friends and Tom launches his career as a hotelier in Hong Kong, where his Chinese gives him a double-edged insight into the divided colony. The years pass and Stewart comes to love Hong Kong, but his romantic horizon remains clear of so much as a Suzie Wong, let alone a Mrs. Stewart. As it is ever so slowly inferred, he's in love with Sister Maria, and she with...
...something of a public relations triumph, and one that might influence whether Hamdi and Padilla are tried in civilian or military courts. It's easier to fight a war when you are not employing unpopular methods, and Cassel thinks the prosecution of the two men may eventually reflect this insight. "The government needs to take another look at the other cases in light of what's happened in the Lindh prosecution," he says, "and they should consider using the U.S. legal system over the U.S. military system...
...stops for "The Crimson Petal and the White" by Michael Faber (Harcourt; September), giving it a starred, boxed review. "Faber's bawdy, brilliant second novel tells an intricate tale of love and ambition and paints a new portrait of Victorian England and its citizens in prose crackling with insight and bravado. Using the wealthy Rackham clan as a focal point for his sprawling, gorgeous epic, Faber, like Dickens or Hardy, explores an era's secrets and social hypocrisy...A marvelous story of erotic love, sin, familial conflicts and class prejudice, this is a deeply entertaining masterwork that will hold readers...
...child the author mitigated his rage through the constant drawing of carnage-filled battle scenes. This precocious interest in history and artistic expression now informs his work with greater insight, but no less passion. The book frequently digresses from Jean-Christofe's pathology into narratives of the Beauchard family history. World War I and French Indochina scar the men, while the women are desperate for education to get off the farm. Their struggles mirror the Beauchard's battle with disease. When the author's great-grandmother practices "white magic" and tells his mother of the fairies living in the fields...
...certainly hope so. I'm hoping for a relationship that respects the laity for their own integrity, their professional competence, their insight. We need the laity. It's clear--leading up to Dallas--that this won't be over until the laity says, O.K., we believe...