Word: personalized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...page narrative moves slowly through 21 years of stutterer Jeremy Zorn's life. There is a rough chronology, but more free association, as one would find in a psychiatric session. Narrated in the first person, the book reads like a record of therapy. Jeremy's speech therapist Sandra is addressed in apostrophe and hangs over much of the book like some Poe-esque confidant...
...point in the book, Jeremy's mother and object of his Oedipal complex "said in her entire life she'd met only one person more self-involved." The narrator is terribly self-involved, and the narrative cannot help but be overbearing...
...companies, not market fluctuations. He espouses the solid, old-fashioned idea of buying good companies cheap and sticking with them long-term, with the added fillip of using borrowed money to maximize returns. Right now he is margined up to his Adam's apple, being just about the only person in the house who still thinks the market's heading up. People regard him with a fascination and solicitude otherwise reserved for a condemned man on the gallows. "It will happen, it will happen, it will happen," a short man with a German accent warns him, "but this time...
...before granting the request, Zobel graphically explained to Suzannne Moran the definitions of aggravated rape of a person under 16 and indecent assault and battery charges...
...second component of the antidrug offensive is a tough eviction policy that Kemp called for last week. It would speed the expulsion of any person convicted, or even suspected, of dealing or using drugs. Moreover, anyone who shared the apartment with the drug offender could also be ousted. Mary Brunette, Kemp's spokeswoman, pooh-poohs the civil liberties questions raised by that policy. Says she: "The rights of law-abiding families in public housing are at least as important as the rights of criminals...