Word: quinton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first half of the novel is narrated by its protagonist, Willie Quinton, and begins with a setting of his early childhood at the idyllic country mansion called Kilnegh in County Cork; this is followed by an extended description of life at Willie's boarding school--a passage that is too long and distracting, and reads, with its contrived nicknames for masters (Mad Mack, Hopeless Gibbon) and standard schoolboy fare, too much like an inserted set-piece; finally there is the massacre which turns Willie's mother to alcohol and then suicide. This leads to an act of revenge that forces...
...disjointed dreams in which [she] was endlessly pursued by [her] parents' weeping"; for Marianne has left her comfortable home in England to come on a hopeless search and then long vigil for Willie. And she proceeds wanted, like Hardy's Tess, from one to the other of Willie Quinton's old acquaintances, repeating the refrain "I am going to have Willie's baby," which resounds like a death knell across rural Ireland...
...English mother whose forced separation suggests the rift between their closely related countries. The child, Imelda, is even more symbolic of the price exacted by violence and hatred. Rendered mute and autistic by horror, she is a pathetic representative of the past, present and future. Says her father, Willie Quinton: "It happens sometimes that the insane are taken to be saints of a kind. Legends in Ireland are born almost every...
...power of these legends is inescapable in Trevor's novel. Michael Collins, the semimythic leader of the Sinn Fein, appears as an occasional guest at the Quinton house, which the Black and Tans burn in 1918 after massacring Willie's father and sisters. The boy grows up to nurse an alcoholic mother, love an English cousin, avenge his father's murder and flee Ire-and. Characteristically, Trevor's women remain home to bear fevered witness and carry the seeds of further disaster...
Five city councilors, including Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci, have expressed varying degrees of support for additional zoning restrictions. City Councilor David Sullivan, who fully supports the neighborhood plan--officially known as the Quinton Petition--said in an interview earlier this week that he is willing to support a compromise He added that he hopes the neighborhood plan will "serve as a vehicle" for such a solution...