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...sudden death of a parent. For Boatner, getting through the first year after "the one man involved in my creation ended for good and in my presence" seems like an insurmountable hurdle (one Price himself faced at age 21). For most of the summer, Boatner does not know that Rafe has suffered a similar experience--his mother was murdered while he looked on--and that is what has rendered him so fragile. Yet Boatner somehow knows he alone can save Rafe from tragedy...
Boatner finds himself as an artist that summer, producing a painting that stands the test of time. Happy, with two sons of his own by the book's end, Boatner, whose mission in life is to "copy things that count in the world," can no longer see Rafe's beautiful face clearly enough to paint him. He can only remember what matters, that he did for Rafe what he could not do for his father...
...fauna, the woolly mammoth, is extinct. But the boy knows better. Squinting his eyes, he manages to conjure up the prehistoric past, complete with saber- toothed tigers, early versions of horses, warthogs and, of course, the elephant's tusky ancestor. In Will's Mammoth (Putnam; $14.95), Stephen Gammell augments Rafe Martin's whimsical text with celebrations of early mammals, snow and that greatest of all time machines, a child's imagination...
Clare Campion, 42, a successful novelist living in New York City, pays one of her infrequent visits home to Mountain City in western North Carolina. There she finds her mother Lily, her stepfather Ralph Quick and her two half brothers, Theo, 28, and Rafe, 26, all of them behaving incorrigibly in character and thereby reminding Clare of why she had left them and the South in the first place. Her only respite from what she calls "the ongoing theatricals of the family" is the companionship of her childhood friend Julia Richardson. Years earlier, Julia gave up a promising career...
...entire community losing its ideals and energies. Theo's marriage to Snow Mullins, a red-neck girl with a ninth-grade education, was a gauntlet thrown down at the Quicks' precarious sense of stature, indeed at Mountain City's communal illusion of social propriety. Theo's younger brother Rafe remembers, "I mean, it was embarrassing at the wedding, seeing how Mom's friends tried to keep their faces from showing how horrified they were when the bride's side of the church started filling...