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...Longlisted for this year's Man Booker Prize (and a strong candidate for the shortlist to be announced on Sept. 9), The Lost Dog tells the stories of two people, Tom Loxley and Nelly Zhang. Tom, a divorced Anglo-Indian literary scholar who lives in Melbourne, has lost his dog in the vast wilderness of the Australian bush. He is there staying in the holiday home of his friend, Nelly, while he finishes a book on Henry James and the uncanny. Nelly, an artist who lives and works in a disused Victorian textile mill called the Preserve, located...
...Over eight days, first Tom, then Tom and Nelly together, look for the (unnamed) dog. But these eight days compress nearly a century of recollected histories of several lives in India. They include Tom's memories of growing up in India and the family's immigration to Australia, and the stories of Tom's father, the Englishman Arthur Loxley, and Arthur's Eurasian wife, Iris de Souza. Iris, now an arthritic and incontinent 82-year-old, living on the untender mercies of her sister-in-law, Audrey, is becoming an intractable problem for her son. Meanwhile, Tom's deepening attraction...
...pervasive and carefully modulated echoing of Henry James - especially of his open-ended and slippery ghost stories - this is a book full of hauntings, specters, doubles, reflections and revenants. They stalk the two types of art or mimetic representation that the book brings into contact with each other: Tom's, in language; Nelly's, in images. They also mark the lives and memories of the characters and, crucially, the narrator's own discourse, for one of the things that de Kretser has undertaken is a kind of psychogeography of contemporary Australia - a study of strata of memory, supernatural presences...
...spine. McCain has been a relentless critic of congressional pork and has made a point of publicizing the pet-project earmarks that appropriators slip into budget bills. "He ruffles a lot of feathers because he doesn't worry about playing the game with the boys in the club," says Tom Coburn, an Oklahoma Republican who has replaced McCain as the Senate's top porkbuster - and top headache. "I call him a crusty old fart. People say he's bullheaded, but he's never afraid to irritate people if it will get something done for his country...
...speculation about Lieberman, Hutchison and other surprise choices like former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge may be just that - speculation fueled by deliberate misinformation, head fakes and uninformed analysis. With Obama's pick, consensus was building around the idea that it would be Biden in the days leading up the announcement. There were a series of rumors that seemed aimed at throwing off the media, but in the end, the pick turned out to be Biden. The same may be true here. Romney and Pawlenty have long been considered the two most likely candidates. They still are. Occam's Razor...