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...water lilies and turtles and fish." To read the magisterial Carpentaria (Giramondo; 519 pages) is to enter Wright's world. What's evoked is not just a physical place, where "you could swear you heard the daydreams of lazy lizards sunning themselves on the branches," but a spiritual realm painted on an operatic scale, where the ancestral rainbow serpent forges the land, a river of fairy people, the yinbirras, rushes tsunami-like through the bush, and a cyclone hits the coast as an act of payback. Wright is Proustian in her love of detail but postmodern in her playfulness: " 'Where...
Long relegated to the realm of childhood fears and playful parental goodnights, the bedbug has of late made a comeback...
...because there are so many people out there who envy the University or hate the University or hate what they think it stands for,” Grogan said in an interview. “It’s just a permanent liability that Harvard has in the public realm...
...culture already obsessed with work, can thrusting kids into the realm of deadlines and BlackBerries be entirely healthy...
Alice McDermott is one of those writers who take seriously the injunction to write about what you know. The intricately beset realm of Irish Americans in New York City and on Long Island is the world she grew up in. It's that same world she has offered us, newly lighted, examined and even transfigured, in five earlier novels, including Charming Billy, a National Book Award winner...