Word: joeys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Joey Becker is very secretive. Considering some of the traumas she has endured, this is quite understandable. She is perhaps the most demure sensual beast ever to have graced the modern novel with her penchant for provocation. As the heroine of Sue Miller's newest novel, While I Was Gone, Jo faces a grave dilemma: how to reconcile her domesticated life as a 52-year-old mother, wife and veterinarian with her sensual fantasies and hippie past. She is fascinated by naked flesh, particularly that of her daughters, her husband and her bar-waitress friends. Unlike her loving husband Daniel...
...Miller redeems her book in two ways. Her writing style is lovely and unpretentious, and her dramatic encounters are fraught with intelligent psychological insights. While Joey Becker may lack the complexity of, for example, Madame Bovary (although parallels between the two women undeniably exist), overall she is a very well-developed character. Ultimately the juxtaposition of melodrama and intellect give her work the air of a very sophisticated soap opera...
...Crimson will begin training in preparation for EIWAs at Army on March 5. The team hopes to return to 100 percent, as their dual meet season was plagued by injuries, including the loss of junior Joey Killar at 165-pounds...
...Crimson will begin training in preparation for EIWAs at Army on March 5. The team hopes to return to 100 percent, as their dual meet season was plagued by injuries, including the loss of junior Joey Killar at 165-pounds...
...three daughters grown and newly flown, her veterinary practice in full bloom and her marriage to a minister comfortably loving, Joey Becker is just beginning to feel vaguely dissatisfied with her predictable life when Eli Mayhew, a housemate from her hippie past, moves to town. His presence both reawakens questions about an old, unsolved murder and kindles in Joey what she has been hungering for: a youthful "sense of a surprise, that heady sense of not knowing" what life will bring. While the lengthy, earnest flashback to the '60s never quite rises above the expected, Joey's return...