Word: jealous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Matthews is as hollow as his fiction. In fact, both he and Austin seem more like sounding boards than characters capable of making their own music. Not so 17-year-old Larry and his delightfully blowsy Aunt Doris in Jealous, a finely tuned 58-page tale that immediately reminds us that Ford is the gifted novelist who wrote The Sportswriter and Independence...
...Jealous is a coming-of-age story told by Larry, a Montana boy who leaves his father's house near the Teton River to live with his mother in Seattle. On the road with his flirty aunt in her pink Cadillac, Larry seems a bit like Huck Finn rafting to new adventures. But Doris is no runaway Jim. Free in body and spirit, she drinks while driving, talks to dangerous characters in strange bars and dispenses seasoned opinions that underscore the title of the book. On why Larry's mom and dad separated: "They know too much about each other...
Unlike Austin and Matthews, Larry brings a fresh and unambivalent eye to experience. Unlike the other two novellas in this collection, Jealous never bogs down in the bottomless gender swamp. In fact, the trip with Aunt Doris reads like a first stop in what could have been (or might become) a rousing American road novel...
...pack of lies," Gerardo J. Ruiz '00 said. "People are jealous of Harvard. [The magazine's editors] just felt like they had to give other universities a chance...
They have their own land, their own money and their own labor--and they are jealous of an encroachment on any one of the three...