Word: raccoon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Elders has been in battle most of her life. It was a struggle to escape rural Schaal, Arkansas. She started school at four, walking five miles daily to catch the bus. At night, she helped her father stretch raccoon hides, which he sold to Sears. After college, she enlisted in the Army and trained as a physical therapist. Later, she was the only black woman in her class at the University of Arkansas medical school...
...ghosts: a black man Robicheaux saw murdered as a teenager whose corpse resurfaces, and a Civil War officer sometimes accompanied by battered but unbowed troops. Throw in the Mafia, visiting Hollywood moviemakers, a serial killer and such fillips as Robicheaux's adopted Salvadoran daughter and pet three-legged raccoon, named Tripod, and one has a gumbo to clog any narrative. It doesn't, because Burke writes prose as moody and memory-laden as his region...
...raccoon population is large," he said. "In any city or town the danger is ten times greater than out in the woods somewhere...
City Councillor Alice K. Wolf said the council will definitely look into the issue. She has heard about an infected raccoon at the Cambridge golf course, she said, but emphasizes that the story is strictly "hearsay...
...them." A nonwriting author of great reputation is described as "Henry James with bowel movements." Social gradations are precisely noted, and the , level of smart-alecky prose is satisfactorily high, although there are lapses. McInerney uses amuletic and quotidian in the same herniated sentence, and calls three different women "raccoon-eyed," which sounds like something Philip Marlowe said while ducking bullets...