Word: savannah
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Luke, the Rambo of the salt marshes, returns from Viet Nam to wage a one- man guerrilla war against the construction of plutonium production plants. Brother Tom is an ex-high school football coach struggling with the aftermath of a nervous breakdown and a failing marriage. His twin sister Savannah is a successful poet and, fortunately, a failed suicide...
...Wingos are players in a ramshackle tragicomedy supported by a dubious narrative device. After Savannah tries to kill herself in Manhattan, Tom comes to town and spends the summer talking to his sister's psychiatrist, the beautiful and unhappily married Dr. Susan Lowenstein. He is a charming Southern storyteller who fills his 45-min. hours with lyric and grotesque tales of his low-country family life. He also plays the defensive redneck to Lowenstein's assured Jewish intellectual, a match-up that begins as a clash of stereotypes and ends as beautiful chemistry. But it is never clear...
...membership in the Colleton League are repeatedly turned down; the boys are teased about their unfashionable clothes. All but Henry, jailed for smuggling dope on his boat, have their vindications. Lila divorces Henry and marries the town's richest citizen; Luke and Tom become high school football heroes, and Savannah writes The Shrimper's Daughter, becomes famous and moves north to live in Greenwich Village as a lesbian...
...barely managed to sell after a brief tour by the author; the second edition of 5,000 simply lay there. But Pinckney, a rebel of long standing, refused to give up. A ninth-generation descendant of a founding family of South Carolina, Barbara Biffinger Pfeiffer Pinckney of Savannah was born with a silver spoon in her mouth; she was also born needing steel braces on her legs for seven years to correct badly turned-in feet and a spinal deformity. "Restless and bored" with the schools and rules that came with her heritage, she eventually quit college...
...warned that "it could be a shrimp boat from 20 years ago or a Spanish galleon from 300 years ago." By week's end the mystery had not been solved. Recovery workers also turned their attention to a 13-ft.-diameter orange object sighted some 100 miles east of Savannah. They were hoping that it was the cone of the main fuel tank...