Word: journeyer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Instead the Rangers are overwhelmed by Mexican soldiers, and the survivors reach Santa Fe in chains after an agonizing mountain trek. The novel's plan is not much different, in fact, from that of Lonesome Dove or Streets of Laredo: an incredibly difficult journey that no prudent soul would have undertaken, with a psychopathic Comanche (Blue Duck in Lonesome Dove, Buffalo Hump here) skulking in the shadows to pick off stragglers...
...president of Texans United For Life, "a defining point in the history of the battle against abortion." But as Weddington (who, tellingly, still refers to McCorvey as "Jane Roe") points out, Roe was a class action, and presumably not all of the people McCorvey represented have made the same journey as she. Moreover, if she does go on to work for Benham, McCorvey will undoubtedly be the first volunteer in Operation Rescue history to support a woman's right to a first-trimester abortion...
...there be anything more tiresome than hearing--or reading--about someone else's quest for spiritual enlightenment? Such accounts always tend toward the deeply sincere and the totally humorless. Anita Desai is therefore an intrepid novelist indeed; her Journey to Ithaca (Knopf; 312 pages; $23) traces the pilgrimages of not one but three seekers after truth, spelled with a capital...
Matteo is the son of wealthy Italian parents, Sophie the daughter of equally rich German ones. They meet, marry and set out for India in 1975, Matteo carrying a copy of Hermann Hesse's The Journey to the East with him. The immensity of the country--its beauty and its filth, its holy men and its begging children--initially overwhelms them. And they discover that their reasons for going differ. Sophie is a hedonist, looking to apprehend reality through the senses: "I want to go to Goa and eat shrimp. I want to go to Kashmir and live...
...investigate the past life of the Mother. "I will make a connection between what you believe and what I know," she tells her husband. Her research turns up an engaging tale of the feisty young girl, half-French, half-Egyptian, who eventually became the Mother. But this half of Journey to Ithaca does not mesh convincingly with the saga of Sophie and Matteo; it seems less a tale within a tale than a totally discrete narrative. Desai beautifully describes the Indian landscapes, but the people who move through them, especially the three principals, seem so monomaniacal about their journeys that...