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...WYATT PALMER IS THE ASSIStant city manager of Five Oaks, Michigan. His wife Susan likes to walk on her hands, pull her pet rabbit out of a hat and construct miniature stage sets. Aunt Ellen is writing the Bible, and Wyatt's sweetly psychotic mother Jeanne makes up 50 cents words like nutomberized, descorbitant and corilineal, which she defines as "so normal, it's strange...
...Baxter's setting is conventional small-town America, but his scenes are as eerie as the realism of Edward Hopper paintings. Five Oaks is a town where history no longer takes root. Industry is elsewhere. Spirits too have up and gone. People have dusty backgrounds and odd occupations. A Palmer neighbor is a retired airline dietitian; a young woman describes herself as a Con-Tact-paper decorator...
Assistant city manager Palmer has not budgeted for evil, but neither has he made a classic Faustian bargain. How could he? In a universe where God is only curious, the devil is certainly bored, at least with Five Oaks. To convey this sense of abandonment and emptiness without losing the reader is not easy. Shadow Play could have turned into another clever existential dead end. But Baxter fills the void with a hundred human touches, a style as intimate as chamber music, and a hero who rouses himself to reject the banality that hoohah happens...
Player/School GP Pts Avg GPPts Avg Rullman, Harvard 0 0 0.0 5 123 24.6 Jenkins, Columbia 0 0 0.0 6 119 19. 8 Palmer, Dartmouth 0 0 0.0 2 36 18. 0 Pierce, Penn 0 0 0.0 4 68 17.0 Maloney, Penn 0 0 0.0 4 65 16.3 Gaca, Cornell 0 0 0.0 3 49 16.3 Allen, Penn 0 0 0.0 4 64 16.0 STATISTICAL REBOUNDING LEADERS...
Player/School GP Reb Avg GPReb Avg Palmer, Dartmouth 0 0 0.0 2 25 12. 5 Moore, Penn 0 0 0.0 4 35 8.8 Marshall, Cornell 0 0 0.0 3 25 8.3 Rullman, Harvard 0 0 0.0 5 40 8.0 Treadwell, Cornell 0 0 0.0 3 21 7.0 Allen, Penn 0 0 0.0 4 26 6.5 Pierce, Penn...