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Stone's task this time resembles the ones he undertook in such previous novels as Dog Soldiers (1974) and A Flag for Sunrise (1981): exposing characters to dangers, external and psychological, that they may be unprepared to handle. Owen Browne, fortyish, a graduate of the Naval Academy who served four years in Vietnam, now sells pleasure boats for an outfit called Altan Marine. Ruggedly handsome -- he appears in company promotional videotapes -- Browne is also by most conventional standards a good person, dutiful, loyal and faithful to Anne, an editor, writer and his wife of 20 years. The Brownes have...
...runaway entrepreneur leaves behind a crumbling financial empire and the commitment he had made to skipper a new Altan Marine model in an around-the-world sailing race called the Eglantine Solo. Hylan's beleaguered lieutenants scramble for a replacement and find him in one of their own employees, Owen Browne...
...Owen, of course, jumps at the chance to get out of his routine, even though his only previous experience of sailing alone was a five-day journey from West Palm Beach, Fla., to New Bern, N.C., during which he fell prey to hallucinations. Anne, at first, thinks the whole idea is crazy: "She was certain she could prevent him from trying it, if she dared. But then there would be the rest of life to get through." So Anne accedes to the plan and talks herself into becoming its cheerleader: "Imagine what kind of a feeling it is," she says...
...Post Road Historic Concerts--will present chamber music by Fasch, Telemann, Quantz and Bach with guests Maria Diez-Canedo, recorder and flute; Owen Watkins, recorder; Suzanne Stump, flute; Daniel Ryan, cello; Larry Hamberlin, harpsicord. Old South Meeting House, 310 Washington St., Boston. Thursday, Feb. 6, 6 p.m. First Parish, Boston Post Rd. at Cochituate Rd., Wayland. Friday, Feb. 7, 8 p.m. Christ Church, Zero Garden St., Cambridge. Saturday, Feb. 8, 8 p.m. $10 for adults, $5 for students, elders, and contributors at Wayland performance. $12 for adults, $6 for students, elders, and contributors at Boston or Cambridge performance...
...Owen would not say whether the bar has filed for a change in name or management to the Cambridge License Commission. He said the "possible name change" has no connection to the bar's 15-day liquor license suspension that ended Sunday...