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Meghan M. Dolan ’06, wasn’t sure she wanted to perform. “Call me quiet, call me shy—I just like to stay home most nights,” said Dolan. “Dancing just isn’t my thing...
PREP CURTIS SITTENFELD A surprise best seller, Prep is the story of a quiet, watchful, chronically insecure (even by adolescent standards) girl who transfers from her Indiana public high school to an exclusive Massachusetts boarding school. More than a peek inside the dorm rooms of the lite, it's an astonishing portrait of what it's like to be that silent girl whom nobody notices...
...quiet giant ofAmerican literature, the maniacally prolific Vollmann won this year's National Book Award for his wildly ambitious, deeply serious panorama of life in Germany and the U.S.S.R. during World War II. With an empathy and insight that border on the psychic, Vollmann inhabits the lives of spies and generals, traitors and switchboard operators and artists (including the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich), all caught in the steel machines of war and fascism...
...surface, “Rhinoceros” deals with the humorously inexplicable transformation of the inhabitants of a quiet French village into rhinoceri, an epidemic that consumes everyone but the protagonist, Berenger (Eric D. Lang...
...strange ethereal appeal of “rhinoceritis” with deceptively uncomplicated set-ups. In a brilliant artistic decision, no attempt is made to create the ungainly rhinoceros costumes that have weakened past renditions; instead, each newly transformed villager simply opens a red umbrella. It is a quiet, visually appealing, and deeply unsettling representation of the villagers’ transformations...