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Four different players were individual game-high scorers, and six players were in double figures for points. Junior Liz Berkery led the way on the offense, but she sure wasn't the only one contributing...
...four seniors were the core of the team, along with [junior] Liz Berkery," Kleinfelder says. The experienced coach spares no metaphors describing the field personalities of her four senior stars: "Buffy Hansen was the tiger--the extra spark on offense--while Leary was the CEO. Becky Gaffney was the general, and Ceci was the glue...
...team boasted seven starting seniors. It had the services of Ceci Clark, Sarah Leary and Becky Gaffney as starters, with Buffy Hansen and Liz Berkery off the bench...
Without such choices, of course, a novel is inconceivable; no book can include everything. So Drabble's central characters again include the three women, friends since their days at Cambridge, who have dominated the trilogy -- Liz Headleand, Alix Bowen and Esther Breuer. But this time, most of the story belongs to Liz, a twice-divorced psychotherapist who lives comfortably in London's St. John's Wood. It is she who receives by mail an odd package containing notebooks, scrambled manuscript pages and what appears to be the skeletal remains of a human finger. She assumes that all this has something...
...Liz may not know Stephen's fate, but the reader is left in little doubt. Scarcely a third of the way into the story, Drabble's narrator remarks, "But he will not die for a while yet." Instead of suspense, the emphasis of this novel falls on what it feels like to be alive and aware at a specific historical period, in this case the first six months of 1988. And Drabble's rather disjointed panorama of diverse characters caught in the amber of time produces an eerily convincing sense of life in a technologically advanced society, of the horrors...