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Cheever drank himself right to the edge of the abyss but drew back. In 1975 he quit drinking for good. Chastened and sober, he completed Falconer, a magnificent novel of sin and redemption that hinges on a homosexual relationship. One year later, a collection of his short stories became a best seller and won the Pulitzer Prize. He even made a sort of peace with his sexual appetites...
...Indiana and Pennsylvania took in the children of dead Civil War veterans, and Louisiana and Illinois offered residential programs for gifted students in the 1980s. But publicly financing boarding schools for inner-city kids is a very different proposition. It was revolutionary in the late 1990s, when two consultants quit their jobs and began raising money to open the SEED School, a charter school in gritty Southeast Washington...
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...sister, “You don’t go to school, you don’t have a job, and you live with Dad”—the stubborn grandfather figure once again played by Alan Arkin.Mac’s suggestion that Rose quit her day job as a maid and become a different kind of cleaning lady offers both girls a chance to turn their lives around. Through shared triumph over hardship—disposing of everything from a finger to a maggot-infested paper bag—the girls move from insulting one another...