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Senior defender Pete Welch said that the team's optimistic attitude has a lot to do with the youth on the team...
...very excited about the fresh blood this year," Senior defender Pete Welch. "They're really impressive...
...novel's many unhinged moments, a typically bizarre collection of Crews characters gather in a Florida swamp for the late-night cremation of Henry Leemer. As her father burns on the pyre, Sarah Leemer gives saccharine | assurances to her lover, Pete Butcher, the angry-young-man hero; Sarah does indeed want a "houseful of little ones." When the ashes cool, the widow Gertrude Leemer, still recovering from a double mastectomy, hefts her husband's skull like a bowling ball and muses, "The final scar makes all of us safe from the world." She credits this insight to the sinister Linga...
...freewheeling, Crews is just plain sloppy. Set for no apparent reason in the mid-'50s, the novel has an unsettling contemporary feel that makes every detail seem anachronistic. The prose, taut and terrifying early on when sex is a threat and violence a seduction, goes limp once Sarah and Pete embark on an apple-pie romance. Even in the fun house of Southern gothic, losing control of the fine tuning is a mistake...
...finally played a good game for the home crowed," a beaming Princeton Coach Pete Carril said...