Word: kates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...joins top scorers Sue Field (five gaols, three assists), Kate Martin (four, three), and co-captain Chris Sailer (five, zero) in trying to solve Harvard's biggest problem of last season--scoring goals...
This combination works splendidly in The Middle Ground. Kate Armstrong, the novel's heroine, is both the logical culmination of Drabble's female characters and good fun to be around on her own. In her early 40s, Kate has acquired three teen-age children, an ex-husband, an ex-lover, and a thriving career writing about women's issues for London newspapers and glossy magazines. She has also undergone a necessary but heartbreaking abortion. The realization of how much she wanted another child, even if seriously crippled, has badly shaken both her and many of her opinions...
...takes real courage for anyone, even a character in a book, to say such things these days: what Kate calls "the cries of hate from the sexual battleground" still ring out from both sides of the front. But Drabble has not gone over to the enemy...
...Kate's story is hardly one of sexual recidivism; she remains admirably independent throughout her crisis. Near the end, she concludes: "Men and women can nev er be close. They can hardly speak to one another in the same language. But are compelled, forever, to try, and therefore even in defeat there is no peace." Kate's problem transcends sex: "What on earth should one do next?" To her credit, Kate finds no single slogan or ideology a sufficient guide through that complex maze...
Preparing a TV documentary on new opportunities for women, Kate ponders both the stunted lives of the old girlfriends who stayed behind and the possibility that the freedom from early pressure made her own success easier for her. As this mud dle deepens, Drabble's vision expands to include a London equally confused. Eng land is a tight little island no longer...