Word: regional
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These sentences foreshadow nearly everything to come in Spartina, although just how cleverly Casey tips his hand does not become clear until much later. Pierce's family once mattered in this region of Rhode Island, but not any longer. A succession of bad breaks has "squeezed him up Pierce Creek to an acre of scrub," where he lives in a ramshackle house with his wife May and two teenage sons and scrabbles a living as a fisherman. "He'd had a plan: by age 40 he would be master of a ship. Here he was at age 40-plus...
Even so, a clearly exhilarated Bush assured the Polish parliament, where Solidarity holds 260 of the 560 seats, that "the Western democracies will stand with the Polish people, and other peoples of this region...
...shows why messengers from the Middle East who try to remain impartial will find many factions eager to throttle them. The place lives and dies on faith and mythology; a mere fact is useless, possibly dangerous, until it has been modified to fit within a dogma. Most of the region's bloodiest episodes during the '80s, the author argues, arose from failures to recognize complex realities...
Readers can be persuaded to care, however, if the memoirist is Reynolds Price (The Source of Light, Kate Vaiden), one of a few writers whose full- length fictions do honor to the term regional novel. Price's region is central North Carolina, where he has lived for most of his 56 years. His father Will was a traveling salesman who fought a lifelong battle against alcohol and financial insecurity. His mother Elizabeth was one of the genteel metal magnolias who, despite generosity to their black servants, Price notes, were the "chief conveyors" of the racist code that cursed...
...layering of past and present. The South's agricultural and religious roots, its history of slavery, and the evolution of its race relations and economy are played off against the comments of people trying to understand the small parts of what Naipaul eventually conveys as a whole: a region of America that is like an emerging nation within a nation...