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...shirt, and dripped blood on the royal bedclothes from a lacerated hand. He cradled a broken ashtray as he sat on her bed. But he made no threatening moves against the 56-year-old monarch, preferring instead to chat about the coincidence that each of them has four children. Pagan's mother Ivy told the Daily Mail, "He thinks so much of the Queen. I can imagine him just wanting to simply talk and say hello and discuss his problems...
Hundreds of guys like us didn't know that Freshman Week. Thumbing through the Register night after night, we inevitably ended up on page 90, just below Ingrid Lorentzen Ott and above Heriberto Roman Pagan...
...Tess) and television (The Mayor of Casterbridge) was born in 1840 in a remote Dorset village. There, farmers, shepherds and artisans lived in a kind of Elizabethan time warp. But something dour and reductive in this son of a stone mason drove him back beyond morris dances to a pagan Britain haunted by ancient superstitions and druidic spells...
...ambitious, technically challenging first novel about personal and political betrayal. If the clang of metaphorical boiler plate rang in the reader's ear, so did the voice of new talent. Trust remains Ozick's only published novel. Her reputation rests mainly on collections of short fiction: The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories and Bloodshed and Three Novellas. In these works, the author's philosophical and social overview narrowed and intensified. She could be outrageously satirical about current styles of New York life, but her more serious concerns centered on Jewish tradition and culture...
...Gates, Norman Mailer, William Styron, Donald Barthelme, Jerzy Kosinski and Truman Capote do not come to their party. They miss quite a scene. Among the uncelebrated guests is a Holocaust survivor who literally levitates the living room with horror stories. Lucy also rises to the occasion with a Christian-pagan vision rooted in agriculture, bacchanalia and fertility symbols. The reader is left suspended with images of unreachable men locked in "the glory of their martyrdom," and of the Holocaust as multiple Crucifixions in which "every Jew was Jesus." Not since Elaine dined alone has there been a stranger tale...