Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...resident of Mattapoisett was arrested on the morning of Nov. 23 at 4:05 a.m. after threatening to rob the Shell gas station located at Memorial Drive and River Road with a handgun...
Consider two new sequels by a couple of very good writers, Larry McMurtry (Comanche Moon; Simon & Schuster; 752 pages; $28.50), and Peter Matthiessen (Lost Man's River; Random House; 539 pages; $26.95). Each lengthy book has its strong points, and each is worth a reader's time; but for quite different reasons, neither entirely works...
Lost Man's River is another kind of troublesome sequel, a second swat at an obsession that has buzzed around the author's head for a decade or more. Killing Mister Watson, published in 1990, was Matthiessen's impressive, exasperating novel about the shooting, in 1910, of a man named E. J. Watson, by a mob of angry townsmen in southwest Florida. Was Watson a hardworking planter and family man who paid his bills and helped his neighbors, or a bar brawler and casual gunman who killed his hired hands rather than pay them at the end of the cane...
...outrageous lies--that keep novels afloat. Perhaps for this reason, he locked his readers away from E.J. Watson and the central drama. He presented his novel as a sheaf of tortuous, conflicting depositions by participants and onlookers that left the truth about the enigmatic Watson untold. Lost Man's River carries the puzzle forward, but in doing so withdraws an additional 50 years from the event. Lucius Watson, one of E.J.'s sons, by now an elderly, self-apologetic historian, pokes around, finds the sole credible witness still alive and to some extent sorts things out. The oddity here...
With the smell of revenge still lingering across the Charles River after the women's soccer team's victory, the women's basketball team now hopes to follow suit and get a little payback...