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The novel centers on an emotional triangle involving an immigrant's daughter, Fermina Daza, a brilliant young doctor, Juvenal Urbino, with, as Thomas Pynchon has written, Florentino Ariza serving "as the hypotenuse." Florentino becomes obsessed with Fermina, who is about 13, and he writes her passionate, though unsuccessful, love letters...
The setting is an imagined "sleepy provincial capital" on the South American shores of the Caribbean, where on one Pentecost Sunday Dr. Juvenal Urbino, 81, falls to his death while trying to retrieve a pet parrot from a mango tree. This calamity sets church bells tolling and mourners swarming to...
Four city psychiatrists testified that Brown was crazy. Three psychiatrists, hired by Brown's attorneys, found her sane, albeit eccentric. Throwing up his hands at the experts, Judge Lippmann quoted the Roman poet Juvenal: "Bitter poverty has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous." He found Brown to...
As the days and entries multiply, both Keene and the people around him assume increasingly interesting shapes. He sets up a still to tide himself over the first year of farming and is soon selling 80 proof corn whisky at 32 cents a gallon. He is one of his own...
"I took you months ago for an educated man," the Rev. Cooper tells Keene, correctly. For the new settler has kept quiet about his Harvard education and the Protestant flock he once ministered to in Blue Hill, Me. The loss of his wife, whom he did not love, cost him...