Word: kates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just who will make up for the loss of two All-Americans--Francesca DenHartog and Maureen Finn--and there All-Ivy stars--Kate Martin, Jeanne Piersiak and Jennifer White--could provide the answer to just how far the Crimson will...
...Neill's back and there she'll be joined Jennifer Greely and Rhodes Scholar senior Sarah Sewall, both of whom took last season off. Kleinfelder's counting on the group's experience to make up for the graduation of Kate Martin and Jeanne Piersiak...
...novel describes the aftermath of a tortuous love affair between the narrator, Kate Ennis, and a married man named Jake. "Orcas Island," the first of the book's three parts, consists almost entirely of inconsequential vignettes, save for the occasional recollection of some uncomfortable scene with Jake, all culled from Kate's recent and distant past. An air of anticipation runs throughout these sometimes humorous, sometimes ironic sketches which appear to introduce Kate's bright but as of yet unfocused mind. These narrative throat clearings are expected to subside and the story of Kate and Jake, or at least Kate...
...story never really gets going. In the second section, called "Pitch Dark, "Kate travels to Ireland for emotional recuperation and stays at the country home of an American diplomat. Unnerved by a slight accident involving her rented car and a truck on the way from the airport to the mansion, Kate, further depressed by the rainy climate and inhospitable people, decides to leave the country after only two days. Losing her cool, she abandons the car in a vacant lot and departs amidst exaggerated paranoia, fearing that the rental agency will have her apprehended before she leaves. Back...
THERE ARE MOMENTS, however, in Pitch Dark when a story appears to be taking off. After setting into the Irish mansion, Kate begins to describe her surroundings and develop a relationship with the staff of servants, weaving a world which for the first time draws the reader in. Likewise, after abandoning the car, she hitches to the airport with a truck driver and it is here that the book's most interesting dialogue takes place. These are the rare occasions when the reader catches Kate outside of the stifling confines of her mind. During moments like these, Adler reveals...