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Another, although comparatively muted explosion gets the plot moving in Brown's fifth novel, Half a Heart (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 402 pages; $24). The year is 1986, and Miriam Vener, Jewish and in her mid-40s, lives in Houston with her ophthalmologist husband Barry and their three children. Amid the splendors of her gated community and rambling, expensive house, Miriam sports a troubled conscience, for she has another child, a half-black daughter whom she has not seen in nearly 18 years. Her husband knows about this chapter of her life, closed before he met her: the time during...
...this other pre-frosh, a girl, and we walked across the river and broke into the football stadium and then we hooked up in the basement of Straus [Hall]," he says...
Still, Boss Cupid (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 111 pages; $22) offers a splendid introduction for the uninitiated. Almost all of Gunn's virtues are on display here: his playful metrical dexterity, his unflinching celebration both of beauty and of its transience. The subject of love crops up repeatedly in the book's 60 lyrics, but the Boss Cupid of the title is not the chubby winged cherub of popular lore. He is something of a hooligan, "devious master of our bodies," wreaker of joy and havoc: "Love makes the cuckoo heave its foster-siblings/Out of the nest, to spatter...
Kara A. Shamy '03, a first-year in Straus, believes that her non-resident adviser is a valuable resource in addition to her proctor...
...dean, Drummond has been responsible for management of Ivy Yard, the group of first-year dorms which includes Thayer, Hollis, Holworthy, Apley, Lionel, Mower, Stoughton and Straus Halls...