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...fast. Not at all like his daddy, Hunter, a quiet fellow who works the evening shift down in the black shaft of mine No. 7--Hunter who lost his wife a few years ago to cervical cancer, contracted, she was sure, because she had committed the sin of enjoying sex too much. Hunter had been slow on the football field, if a sure tackler, and as he gets up around 50 he's even slower, broken down after 25 years in the mines with a bent left arms that won't straighten out all the way and a wheezing...
Jerzy Kosinski's sixth novel takes up where Cockpit, his previous bestseller, took up: an international adventurer glides through a modern landscape as ugly and alluring as sin. George Levanter, an Eastern European refugee from Nazi and Soviet persecution, is a "self-employed idea man." In fact he works in some hazy free-lance fashion for a firm called Investors International and follows a circular itinerary from the Swiss Alps to Beverly Hills and back to the snow again...
With a little more than 33 minutes gone, Harvard committed the dangerous sin of fouling a Princeton player near the goal area. After Tiger halfback Charlie Stillitano chipped the free kick over Harvard's defensive wall from 25 yards out, second-leading all-time Princeton scorer Paul Milone slipped past the fullbacks, drew a bead on the bottom right corner of the net, and rifled a shot past the helpless Herold...
...trilogy could well make Fast a millionaire. "I appear to have blundered into a tremendous bestseller, but that's not necessarily an act of sin," Fast shrugs, adding, "I, for one, do not understand why a book becomes a bestseller. But I guess the publishers don't either...
...Second Deadly Sin. Sanders...