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...only sane explanation for wanting to possess every matchbook cover or baseball card ever printed or for paying $47 million to own a Van Gogh. Or trying to collect every fact in the space-time continuum by memorizing an encyclopedia or deciding to experience one of every kind of lover...
...innocent young Irish girl is seduced, and later finds herself in a family way. Rather than face the anger of her father and brothers and the contempt of her friends and neighbors, she runs away to search for her lover, who departed without leaving a precise forwarding address. This tale, of course, has had many tellings; it's hard to think of an Irish writer who hasn't tackled it. Yet in Felicia's Journey (Viking; 213 pages; $21.95), William Trevor makes his heroine's plight and flight seem entirely original...
...story is told as both Felicia and Mr. Hilditch experience it, and these alternating points of view not only enhance suspense but also illuminate character. Felicia does not know that while searching for her lover, she herself has become prey to someone else. As she thinks back to the romantic interlude that caused her current dilemma, she cannot -- or will not -- see how badly used she has been by the father of her unborn child...
...dead with a pistol in his hand, his grip on the lives of Terri and her daughter does seem to tighten. Nobody believes that Richie would have been public spirited enough to commit suicide. Some very unsympathetic cops sniff around Terri and her family and finally arrest her new lover, an upstanding lawyer and senatorial candidate whose 15-year-old son the corrupt Richie had smeared with phony charges that he molested Terri's little girl...
...Elizabeth Hapgood, does all she can, with her crisp high-heeled pacing, to delimit the boundaries of her role, but there's something a little frustratingly soft -- in the text -- at her center. As played by David Strathairn, Kerner is more convincing as a scientist than as a squelched lover; there's something slightly too predictable -- too projectable, as Kerner the mathematician might say -- about his twitchings and jerkings when sentiment gets the better...