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Horn’s imagery often alludes to Biblical scenes while depicting everyday life. For example, when Leora, whose search for meaning is one of the novel’s central themes, stands at a seal tank in a zoo with her boyfriend, the narrator evokes the parting...
Jason leaned against the seal tank and blew on its surface... Little waves of water rushed away from him, cowering before his breath. For a moment it seemed to Leora that if Jason blew hard enough, he could blow half the tank’s water away, clearing an empty space for himself to step inside, high...
...Image begins with a snapshot in time, a single event that propels the narrative both forward and backward: the death of Naomi Landsmann, Leora’s best and only friend. This event causes Leora to meet Naomi’s grandfather, Bill, whose passion for Biblical photographs causes him to view life in discrete moments, snapshots that never form a cohesive whole. Though Bill’s goal is to create “the Bible on film, its greatest moments recorded in stop-action photography,” these tiny squares cannot create a world of meaning...
Already, workers with pensions are retiring two years earlier than those with only 401(k) plans, according to a study by economists Leora Friedberg and Anthony Webb. The number of people working at ages 65 to 69 has been drifting higher for a decade and now stands...
...Reported by David Bjerklie and Andrea Dorfman/New York, Wendy Cole/Chicago, Jeanne DeQuine/Miami, Helen Gibson/London, David S. Jackson/Los Angeles, Leora Moldofsky/Sydney, Timothy Roche/Atlanta, Chris Taylor/San Francisco, Cathy Booth Thomas/Dallas and Dick Thompson/Washington, with other bureaus