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...GIRL WITH A PEARL NECKLACE PW adores "The Strand of a Thousand Pearls" by Dorit Raninyan, translated from the Hebrew by Yael Lotan (Random House: June 25), giving it a starred review. "Rabinyan's second novel (after the international bestseller 'Persian Brides') maintains an expert balance between lyricism and tough-mindedness. Like Isaac Babel in his Odessa short stories, (Rabinyan) knows that a metaphor is not an ornament, but rather a probe (or even a bullet) into the heart... FORECAST: Reviewers eager to pigeonhole Rabinyan's work will compare it to 'Like Water for Chocolate, but her fierce storytelling...
...drawn to each other at a party that they have "a sexual collision" against a bathroom wall within two hours of meeting each other. Are the sex scenes in his novel taken from Schrank's own life? The author smiles coyly. "After I've revised them a thousand times, I don't know what's true and what...
First, put a few thousand dollars into an UGMA account, particularly if you're not likely to qualify for financial aid. The downside is that once your children hit 18, the money can be used at their discretion. But even if they are not college-bound, you're not liable for withdrawal or tax penalties...
...penalty short of criminal assault late in a game as important as last night’s, but referee Scott Hansen whistled Cornell defenseman Doug Murray for roughing with just over a minute left to play. The controversial call infuriated Schafer, the Big Red bench and the few thousand Cornell fans in attendance...
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but when the picture tells a story of violence and victimhood and when the artist herself had lived the picture, the word count quickly approaches a million...