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Occasionally, the prose can sound like homily. But Clark unfolds the story's moral dramas with rare assurance and grownup charity. As his people learn to lie--to protect others and not themselves--and as they come to see how "sometimes the better part of love is silence," he suggests that religion consists mostly of the faith we have in those around us. In the Deep Midwinter not only shows how love can lead to suffering, but also, more interestingly, points out how suffering can lead to love...
Students curious about Slavic literature may also want to check out Slavic 231e: "Modern Polish Prose," taught by Visiting Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures Jerzy Jarzebski...
DIED. ELSPETH HUXLEY, 89, prolific British author who returned repeatedly, in person and evocative prose, to the African landscapes of her childhood; in Tetbury, England. Huxley grew up in Kenya hunting game, playing polo and observing the Kikuyu servants--memories she revived to popular acclaim in The Flame Trees of Thika...
...posted some of it on CompuServe to win an argument," says Gabaldon. "And people said, 'This is wonderful. What is it?' And I said, 'I don't know.' "Eight years later, she's still writing chunks, which have been crafted into four hefty novels. She posts reams of prose online, at a Website a fan set up for her. The meeting of Webheads and her story of a time-traveling British army nurse seems to be happy. Drums of Autumn, the latest in the Outlander series, is a surprise best seller, beating out such literary veterans as Michael Crichton...
...forgotten 800-page confession and jeremiad, was overly melodramatic and Doom-of-the-Westy in tone. Yet his 100-page chapter, "The Story of a Middle-Class Family," is among the finest and most frightening of American autobiographies--Sophocles visiting Theodore Dreiser, with gothic touches, told in Chambers' incomparable prose style. "Dysfunctional" does not quite describe the Chambers family of Lynbrook, Long Island--the weird, derisive, mostly vanishing father, who was bisexual; the mad grandmother wandering the house at night with a knife; the mother who slept with an ax under the bed; the alcoholism; the beloved brother Richard...