Word: sharpness
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...flips over "The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits: Stories" by Emma Donoghue (Harcourt; May), giving it a starred review. "Seventeen stories by the Irish-born Canadian author ransack what Donoghue calls 'the flotsam and jetsam of the last seven hundred years of British and Irish life' for razor-sharp vignettes of the fates of women in judgmental male-dominated societies...These jewel-like stories vibrate with thickly textured detail and vigorous period language. Donoghue's colorful, confrontational historically based fiction is making something entirely new and captivating out of gender issues. One of the best books of the year...
...Much Coffee Man's Amusing Musings" does a much better job of saying smart, funny things than the re-vamped "Too Much Coffee Man." Shannon Wheeler has some sharp things to say about consumerism, the media and the state of the world. He says them best through his over-caffinated, insecure superhero. It makes for excellent reading when you can't sleep...
...Rolls-Royce with plates that read 001 or else a customized tour bus with a small living room complete with satellite TV. His ranch is surprisingly modest but features a collection of some of the world's finest Arabian and thoroughbred horses. His main meal, at 7 p.m. sharp, is a sumptuous banquet of Arabic and Continental cuisine...
Miller drove in both Crimson runs, twice singling in sophomore second baseman Sara Williamson with sharp hits through the left side of the infield...
...cross the pond to America, where the band was eventually formed. On the way, Clancy’s misadventures include being wooed by a Guggenheim heiress and keeping house with a psychic Radcliffe dropout in New York City. The book is almost too dense with such vignettes, but the sharp wit and storytelling ability of the “troubador” rescue it from the shallowness that comes with broad coverage. It may not be Angela’s Ashes, but, like the nipple cairn on Slievenamon, The Mountain of the Women stands...