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...John McGahern’s new novel By The Lake. The story recounts a year of everyday labors and occasional intrigues in a small village. A meditative eye for the details that color passing moments gives this novel a quiet integrity, unrivaled by works that impatiently resort to plot twists, muddled psychology and politics for their excitement. McGahern’s story recalls that while societies seem to be progressing and deteriorating at a dizzying pace, most people are just trying to live their lives as best they...
Despite the show’s nearly complete lack of spoken dialogue, the music is performed with such passion and the visual design is so intriguing that the audience is completely transfixed. Even without any real plot, Blast! succeeds in effectively communicating and infusing in its audience a wide range of emotions. This is an achievement that is all too rare on stage and certainly a new accomplishment for the marching genre...
Aside from the fertility clinic’s requirement that donors be Ivy Leaguers, Harvard itself has very little to do with the book’s plot. There is enough of Boston thrown in to make the setting recognizable—a little Beacon Hill, a little Boston Common—but the book could just have easily been set at any other prestigious coed university with cash-desperate grad students...
Although the intricacies of the stolen-genetic-material plot can be more tedious than frightening, the book’s premise is not completely divorced from reality. According to Arnone, colleges have long been a major resource for fertility clinics and that his sperm bank solicits donations from many area schools, including Boston University, Northeastern and Harvard. Because the clinic accepts only 1 in 30 donors, clinic administrators feel that catering to students helps them streamline their stringent selection process. “Almost all of our donors come from colleges,” Arnone says. Unlike in Cook?...
When informed of the basics of the plot, Arnone laughs out loud. “What is this, Nancy Drew?” he asks. Cook’s take on his characters is slightly different. “When you’ve written a few [books]—I think Shock is my 23rd—you begin to create your characters for the story,” he says. “What I try to do, and what I think sets my books apart from, if you will, the best-selling genre, is that...