Word: land
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sardonic novel, by turns philosophical and comic and fantastic. In the book's opening scene, two middle-aged Indian actors fall 29,002 feet from a jetliner that has just been exploded by terrorists over the English Channel. They have an animated conversation as they hurtle toward earth; they land safely, but then their troubles begin anew. Along the way, the author writes about his schooling and young adulthood in Britain, about his love for Bombay and about the death of his father. He explores the roots ! of his Muslim faith and retells some legends of the Prophet Muhammad...
THIS BOY'S LIFE by Tobias Wolff (Atlantic Monthly Press; $18.95). A vivid memoir of a bizarre upbringing, dwelling not on hardships but on the promise of awakening every morning in a vast land where people are prepared to forget the past and believe anything...
...Boston local members of the bricklayers union act as nonprofit housing developers. On low-cost land the bricklayers acquired from the city, they are building modestly priced homes that first-timers buy with mortgages subsidized by the state Home Ownership Opportunity Program. Eleanor Santosuosso, 45, will soon move -- along with her husband, three sons and her mother, 75 -- into a four-bedroom town house that the family won the right to buy for $97,000 in a lottery last year. Says she: "Even my mother says she has always dreamed of owning a home. She figured it was an impossible...
...December, an Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 with 104 passengers and six crew aboard was forced to land at Yeager Airport in Charleston, W.Va., after a 14-inch hole opened in its fuselage at 31,000 feet...
...back to his home-land, de Sousa Mendes and his family saw hundreds of refugees in front of the Portuguese consulate in Bayonne. De Sousa Mendes spent another day writing visas there before returning to Lisbon...