Word: tales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Simon & Schuster or Random House but by the Naval Institute Press (N.I.P.) of Annapolis, an academic publisher specializing in works like The Mariner's Pocket Companion and Dictionary of Naval Abbreviations. Second, the author is not an experienced novelist but a Maryland insurance broker who wrote his tale of high-tech undersea warfare without having served a single day in the Navy, much less aboard a submarine...
...Sioux certainly deserves that, if only as a tribute to reckless originality. A stranger tale and an odder telling would be hard to confect. Vincent Castleton, 43, an English banker in New Orleans, has married Marguerite Benoir, also known as Mim or Mimi to the handful of people on earth she regards as equals. These include most of the Benoirs, an impossibly rich and haughty French clan whose members call themselves the Sioux, perhaps as a tribute to their own ferocity. Mim, in her mid-20s, has led a luxurious but troubled life. Her first marriage, to Cousin Georges Benoir...
...roughly two dozen works in the book's first section range from the erotic awakening of a honeymooning couple to the pensiveness of an old man surveying his fields and finding solace in memory. The book's third section contains more poems inspired by the tale of Sweeney. They describe the bird- man's first flight: "more sleepwalk than spasm" . . . drawing "close to pebbles and berries . . . relearning the acoustic of frost." He recalls his roosting place in a chestnut tree, characterized as "a queen in her fifties, dropping/ purses and earrings," and the highlights of an avian existence...
...locked in a battle of wills with a black beggar boy, who redoubles his efforts every time he is rebuffed. Soon the visitors are made to feel unwelcome, the woman especially so; she decides to abandon both the island and her partner. Her decision reminds her of an earlier tale: "I saw, like Eve, that paradise had become just another place to leave behind...
Diene Arbus begins with the photographer's Fairy tale birth in March of 1923 into a world of wealth and fashion. Arbus's father, David Nemerov, headed. New York's extravagant Russeks department store, reputed to be the place where millionaires bought gifts to lavish on their "kept" women. Her mother, the lovely Gertrude Russeks, was the daughter of the store's founder. Forever ill at ease with the over-indulgent life style her parents provided, the young Diane would force herself to "stand on the window ledge of her parents' apartment in the San Remo, 11 stories above Central...