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Emma most frequently plays the deceased member of the trio. Although in life she was a trial (like her husband), in death she became a perfect angel. It seems inevitable that Hardy would work this transformation on her behalf, given his rueful temperament. His poems are brooding, self-chiding. His life seems a variation on the biblical injunction that a man must lose himself to find himself. In Hardy's case, anything and everything had to be lost before its value could be found. He was a man for whom happiness was always just around the corner -- the corner...
...four-year high school tour, William is an old man with a damaged knee, a child to support and some rueful wisdom: "When somebody said, 'When you turn nba, don't forget about me' and all that stuff, I should've said to them, 'If I don't make it, well, don't you forget about...
...named for Confederate general Braxton Bragg, and many years later he gives his own youngest boy the same name. Trudie, Nathan's mother, was the youngest of the three buoyant, beautiful Tucker sisters, all widowed early, who dominate the hero's childhood and the first half of this funny, rueful novel of morals and manners. The other figure who keeps recurring and who comes to obsess Nathan is the women's brooding "outside" -- or illegitimate -- cousin, Aubrey Bradshaw...
With The End of the Hunt (Dutton; 627 pages; $24.95), a novel that sifts the moral and political wreckage left by the Irish civil war of 1921, Thomas Flanagan brings to a rueful close his vast, intelligent, unfailingly civilized trilogy about Ireland's struggle to rid itself of English domination. Here as in the earlier novels, The Year of the French and The Tenants of Time, there is a powerful sense that the future is watching over one's shoulder. Unlike the characters, the reader knows that all the heroism and treachery, all the endless talk and rising...
...Books: A rueful close to a trilogy on Irish history...