Word: rootlessness
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...fact he would live two lives in the space of one, twice as long in the same amount of time." He is intrigued but not discomfited to learn that his spot exists always in twilight. His pleasure is threatened only by Irene, a woman his age and equally rootless, who discovered this world years earlier and tries to bar him from it. She has already been living a double life, has explored the mysterious domain called Tembreabrezi and knows that the residents of Mountain Town are threatened by an evil force that they will not name...
...book is a criminal-justice system that fails to protect society from its marauders. There is, however, another villain in Zebra - one that Howard somewhat slights. In concentrating on the crimes, hideous as they are, he does not really grapple with the social ecology that may drive ill-educated, rootless men to acts of such brutality. Still, Howard's pronouncement echoes like a scream on a dark street: "California [has] a bad habit of letting its convicted killers out to kill again...
Jerzy Kosinski's heroes have become dependable literary fixtures, as recognizable as Kafka's K. or Beckett's tramps. Rootless, quixotic, warped by an anti-childhood in Holocaust Europe, they traverse the American landscape like knights-errant on a futile search for purpose...
Groll got an honorable discharge from the U.S. Army. He has not sought money for his strange revelations. He was always a rootless man, according to Toledo Lawyer Sheldon Slaybod, a friend who knew him before the conversion. The years in the wilds have not changed him much, says Slaybod, "although he's a lot more at peace with himself...
...Malley further enraged New York fans by persuading Giants Owner Horace Stoneham to move his team from Manhattan to San Francisco. The era of rootless ball clubs began. In the West the Dodgers proved a gold mine and last season drew more than 3 million fans-a milestone in baseball history...