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...Milo, son?' Emma Mustian spoke from the foot of the steps for the third time that morning, still not raising her voice, trusting her natural power to wake...
...Saturday, no school and Milo was dreaming, and because he so rarely dreamed-waking or sleeping-he clung to it now, her his dream, like money smuggled into his head, chest, hips and abandoned there, sudden and perilous...
...Milo is a 15-year-old North Carolina farm boy who has only the night before experienced his first baffling encounter with sex. He is also the central figure in this stunningly perceptive, crisply humorous novel. In his first book A Long and Happy Life, Reynolds Price told the amusing tale of Mile's gangly pretty sister, Rosacoke, who resorted to motherhood to win her laggard suitor. This novel takes the Mustian family back a dozen years or so. It is more richly textured, more artfully woven than A Long and Happy Life, subtly fabricating a world of startling...
Python & Enchantress. Price's story tells of a rambling, weekend hunt for a rabid dog that has bolted into the pinewoods, for the dog's dimwitted, devoted master, Milo's brother, who has bolted too, and for an 18-ft., 280-lb. python named Death that has escaped from the county fairgrounds and is the slithering, ravenous reason for their flight. Milo himself would rather pursue his affair, begun two days before, with the 16-year-old daughter of the python's proprietress, but family fealty prevails over private pleasure. With the town's aging...
Cassel impishly initiates a seduction while posing nude for a life class in Rome. He has his way with a working model (Irina Demick), a baker's wife (Sandra Milo), a widow (Annie Girardot) and a winsome ingenue (Catherine Deneuve)-without ever letting a hint of prurience mar his bland façade. Quite simply, he appears to have been overtaken by the sex drive before learning how to steer. According to the plot, Cassel has other things on his mind, for he plays a professional scapegrace taught by his knavish old granddad "to be an idle...