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...latest, Never Let Me Go (Faber and Faber; 263 pages), is crueler still. And so who is this author: English intellectual or Japanese sensei? "I felt half English and half Japanese for a long time," says Ishiguro, relaxing in the small cinema that's the pride of his suburban London home. In the corner are three electric guitars, a reminder of his early, failed ambition to be a rock star. "My writing style is quite minimalist on the surface, with hints of conflict or tension tucked away," he says. "That's something I have in common with classic Japanese settings...
...tells another story: his daughter is sick, he's haunted by memories of his dead wife, and his son is screwing up the landscaping business Jerry spent his life building. Of course, Jerry likes the picture the first way, but that second picture keeps looming. The quintessential novel of suburban blight, Aloft is as perfect and manicured as a Long Island, N.Y., lawn...
...stirring up the state’s stagnant political scene. The WFP now attracts hundreds of thousands of votes from those left out in the cold by the major parties, from blue-collar workers who used to vote red to urban minorities who used to vote blue to suburban independents who otherwise might not vote...
...could any student, like Abu Ali, who attended the controversial Islamic Saudi Academy (I.S.A.) in northern Virginia while growing up. The eldest of five children, Abu Ali was born in Houston in 1981, but by the time he was 3, his family had settled in suburban Virginia, a short commute from his father's job as a computer systems analyst at the Saudi embassy in Washington. In many ways, young Abu Ali had a fairly typical American upbringing, playing soccer, tutoring other kids, passionately cheering on the Washington Redskins and even dreaming of one day becoming President...
TheFacebook’s carefree atmosphere, however, didn’t jive well with suburban Palo Alto. Late in the summer, their landlord sent TheFacebook boys a letter of complaint, asking them, among other things, not to throw furniture into the pool, talk outside after 10 p.m., or climb on the roof...