Word: menfolk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What appeals so strongly about Higgins' fiction may be that he lets the reader overhear men sizing up other men, judging them, often not gently. (Mostly men, yes; his women characters tend to be not much more than complications in the lives of their menfolk.) In The Progress of the Seasons, a 1989 book nominally about Boston's accursed Red Sox baseball team but mostly about the author's family, Higgins offers a shimmering truth: Irish Catholic males can't talk to one another about important personal matters. (Scandinavian Protestant males can't either, for the record...