Word: luck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Instead, I'll call the Preakness for Forward Pass, the Derby favorite who got his shot at the Triple Crown by the back door of the stewards' office. There are two reasons for such iconoclasm; one has to do with racing and the other with racing luck...
...HEART OF THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY, by William Gass. The author of the highly praised novel, Omensetter's Luck, focuses an intensely physical image of the Midwest with poetic precision...
...ambitious plan. He would like, said Girard, to put together the first guidebook to China since the Communists took power in 1949-and indeed, since the Japanese railways tried to produce one in 1924. Chou looked at the Frenchman in disbelief, saying only: "I wish you lots of luck...
Girard needed not only luck to gather any meaningful information about the vast, xenophobic country, but a lot of patient plodding and unusual methods as well. His persistence paid off, and the result, Nagel's Encyclopedia Guide to China, was published in French last year and has just appeared in an English translation. A 1,504-page compendium of hard-to-come-by information on China, it should be a delight both for China-watchers and for general readers who want to shell out $19.95 for a vicarious trip...
Gass published his fine first novel, Omensetter's Luck, two years ago, when he was 41. He shares James's pragmatism, his commitment to form and to the senses, his cheerless affirmation willed out of an all too obvious despair. The despair seems to rise from the conclusion that ultimate answers are beyond reach; Gass puts his faith in the structure of his prose and the intense physicality of his words. Death imagery crackles through these pages like winter wind through a cornfield, yet the characters have exceptional vitality. A youth watches with unblinking fascination as a farmhand...