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...magical musical memory masterpiece, The Singing Detective, pictured a writer who, while suffering an egregious skin disease, psoriatic arthropathy (as Potter did), recalls his youth in Gloucestershire's Forest of Dean (where he grew up). For a quarter-century, Potter was England's raw conscience, its collective grudge keeper and, to many, its pre-eminent playwright...
...tried the University of Tennessee twice and the U.S. Air Force once. He married a young woman from college named Lee Holleman, the first of his two wives, and they had a son, Cullen, who is an architect in Spain. The elder McCarthy's first book was The Orchard Keeper, an unsentimental, striking, powerful, lovely commemorative to a gone way of life in the old Tennessee hills that ended so portentously it made you want to snatch Faulkner from the grave and choke him for his influence...
McCarthy got some grant money for The Orchard Keeper -- the William Faulkner Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters -- and there is no account of his having hit a lick at anything but novel writing since. His second wife, Anne de Lisle, recalls living in a barn with him outside Knoxville for eight years, bathing outdoors, eating beans, her husband rejecting $2,000 offers to speak at universities because everything he had to say was available in those books that no one was buying. The repellent could have been subject matter, but then only a simpleton...
...offensive star of the day was junior attacker Jamie Ames, who had a double-hat trick, scoring six goals on the hapless Dartmouth keeper...
Yale's strength is in the goal, where senior keeper Rich Dressler continues to stymie offenses...