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...Susan Minot...
...Woman lies in bed, suffering from cancer. Her life draws to a close amid a haze of painkillers and memories of a man she adored. With main ingredients such as these, Susan Minot's latest novel. Evening, could have collapsed into a shmaltzy mess of tear-jerking reflections on life and love. Minot, however, does more than deftly avoid this route in her lyrical tribute to the self-awareness that "falling in love" can engender. In the end, we do come away struck by the underlying sadness of the tale, not because we realize what "might have been," but because...
...length of a friend's weekend wedding festivities. While Lord's four children maintain a death watch, she relives every minute of that fateful weekend and encounters snippets of memory from other points in her life that flesh out the affair's consequences. In her powerful third novel Susan Minot mesmerizes with her convincing evocation of Lord's final semiconscious state, wherein time and place crisscross, the lines between real and imagined blur, and the difference between resignation and regret is indistinguishable...
...Kelly Flinn's brother, and I feel compelled to respond to the question posed on your cover asking if my sister is the wrong stuff. Kelly's performance appraisals should help. Reports signed by her base commander at Minot (N.D.) Air Force Base clearly demonstrate her outstanding performance. Comments from 1996 showed that she displayed "maturity and responsibility above her peers." Other remarks say, "Lt. Flinn is an outstanding officer and aviator--her performance stands head and shoulders above her peers...incredibly sharp, professional warrior. Intelligent, aggressive and dedicated...stellar performer in all aspects of officership and aviation...
Just days after that party, Airman Gayla Zigo arrived at the Minot Air Force Base with her husband Marc, who was hired as the base youth sports director. Marc and Flinn met when he too joined a soccer team. Gayla says she and Marc had dinner with Flinn and Thompson and another couple after a soccer game on June 30. She recalls Flinn and Thompson flirting, joking about marriage. "She said, 'Where's my ring?' and held out her hand," Gayla remembers. Thompson fashioned a paper ring out of a napkin, and he put it on Flinn's hand. Gayla...