Word: katrin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BORN. To Michael DeBakey, 68, pioneer heart surgeon and president of the Baylor University College of Medicine, and Katrin DeBakey, 35, former actress from Hamburg, Germany; their first child, a girl; in Houston. Name: Olga-Katarina...
...minimum. Fourteen out of the twenty stories are very short--four or five pages in length--and some suffer from a long, descriptive introduction; expectations are created which are left unsatisfied by the brief action at the end. One of the strangest stories in the collection, "Katrina, Katrin'," begins with a valiant struggle to reproduce the everyday speech of office workers on a New York subway platform, then abruptly shifts to a long, narrative story-within-a-story, a form with which Helprin is more comfortable. Yet, Helprin is also experimenting with pure narrative as a form: it presents...