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...months of struggle, company officers bought up the public stock and turned Dan River into a private firm. Icahn, who had started buying shares at $12, sold out for $22.50, for a total profit of $8.5 million. After his victory, Icahn named his new German shepherd attack dog Shiloh in honor of the Civil War battle in which the North defeated the South...
...Shiloh and Other Stories by Bobbie Ann Mason. Times are changing in western Kentucky, the setting for these tales of restless wives, footloose truckers and feisty senior citizens...
Cast up in America after the war, Brill founded his school on the shore of one of the Great Lakes. The institution boasted a dual curriculum: "the Priceless Legacy of Scripture and Commentaries," and social studies and French. As Brill puts it, "The waters of Shiloh springing from the head of Western Civilization." But the experiment flops. Hopelessly inept as a pedagogue and judge of children, Brill blames his school's failure on its students, whom he dismisses as "commoners, weeds, the children of plumbers." Given such contempt, he fails to recognize genius when it comes his way. Beulah...
FICTION: Bech Is Back, John Updike George Mills, Stanley Elkin Ironweed. William Kennedy ∙ On the Black Hill, Bruce Chatwin ∙ The Painted Lady, Françoise Sagan Shiloh and Other Stories, Bobbie Ann Mason
FICTION: Bech Is Back, John Updike George Mills, Stanley Elkin Ironweed, William Kennedy On the Black Hill, Bruce Chatwin Shiloh and Other Stories, Bobbie Ann Mason ∙The Transfer, Thomas Palmer