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...look at her sitting there, thin and insolent and complete, and I can’t say any of it.”The past and the way it returns to us is a recurring theme throughout the book, suturing the stories to one another and focusing the reader??s attention on the characters’ simultaneous divergence and cohesion of experience. All of Smith’s characters share a common search for a sense of identity—a sense which can only be arrived at by a reflection on the past. Smith?...
...campaigns. But a special invitation to work closely with Bush’s former chief strategist—that’s a whole different ball game. “It’s like winning the lottery,” said Carl Cannon, the Washington Bureau Chief for Reader??s Digest and a former fellow at the Institute of Politics. Rove, who resigned from his position in the Bush administration in August 2007, now works as an independent lecturer and political analyst. Caleb does research for Rove in his D.C. office, but that?...
...description of Anton, the sainted pig, is endearing, and his passage on “luxury ribs” is tantalizing enough to make any carnivore salivate. But these savory moments only serve to make the looming waves of revulsion hit even harder. The ultimate justification of the reader??s journey is the (false) assumption that Barlow will succeed. But he gets too lost in the woods and the “maybes” of Galicia to remember the objectives of his quest: “Over the course of a year, the challenge of eating every...
...It’s an insightful recipe for literature, enchanting in its simplicity.Wood is both a critic and a professor, and it shows: his prose, easy and approachable, reads like the transcript of an English class held around a pot of hot cocoa in Lamont Cafe. To ensure the reader??s comfort, Wood shies away from literary terminology, though more technical criticism lurks in the lengthy footnotes.When describing fruitful passages, Wood frequently interrupts himself with his own enthusiasm—“What a piece of writing this is!” or “What...
...will end, there is still a certain amount of pleasure in seeing Pat discover this for himself. Nevertheless, Pat’s clumsy language, simplistic concept of the world, and frequent inability to understand others make him an odd—and ultimately unsatisfying—object for the reader??s sympathy. —Staff writer Rachel A. Burns can be reached at rburns@fas.harvard.edu...