Word: jolley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those who have not yet discovered the work of Elizabeth Jolley might well start with this novel. For one thing, it is brief, deceptively simple, eccentric and entirely in keeping with the comic, macabre nature of her best fiction. And it is nice to know that there is more where this comes from. The Newspaper of Claremont Street is the eighth Jolley book, including six other novels and a collection of stories, to be released in the U.S. in the past three years. Prior to 1984, she was one of Australia's best-kept literary secrets. Now her international reputation...
...Jolley's success owes something to publishers willing to hawk her books outside Australia. But her own distinctive talent deserves most of the credit. After leaving her native England with her librarian husband and three children and settling in Australia in 1959, she took up a variety of jobs, including nursing, door-to-door sales, occasional stints of domestic service and eventually writing. Along the way, she seems to have developed a sense of what loneliness and isolation can do, even to the most simple, hardworking folk. Such people, earnest and a little unhinged, began popping up in her fiction...
Hostage's trainer, Mike Freeman, tried to convey a jaunty philosophy, but his hands were shaking: "As LeRoy Jolley says, 'You don't play this game in short pants.' " Jolley's chilling line was coined in 1975 on the tragic occasion of the filly Ruffian's match race against Kentucky Derby Winner Foolish Pleasure. Ruffian's right foreleg snapped, and she was destroyed. Jolley trained Foolish Pleasure...
Dave Giandomenico and Brian Jolley tallied for K-House in the final, while Greg Dumanian--who allowed only three goals in three tournament games but had never played competitive hockey before this year--mishandled only one of Eliot's efforts...
...Ryan to go to the air--and for once that strategy worked. Slater grabbed a pass on the end of a long curl pattern to put the Deacons at the 12, and two plays later Ryan lofted the ball over the defense into the arms of tight end Brian Jolley in the back of the endzone...