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...autobiographically: Marcus is a young Jewish man from Newark, N.J., with a formidable intellect and an equally formidable anxiety. This anxiety first takes hold when his father transforms from a nurturing role model and friend into a fear-ridden monster. Fight after fight leads Marcus to relocate to the town of Winesburg, Ohio, and a college of the same name, in 1951. And here the anxieties only compound: Marcus buries himself in work, falls in love, fights with both his roommates and the college’s faculty, and in so doing pushes himself into isolation...
...horrifying, and misery is unavoidable. But thanks to Elizabeth Strout’s indomitable characters and the empathetic way she treats them, the stories are also an enjoyable read.“Olive Kitteridge” is a collection of 13 short stories about the residents of a small town in Maine. The stories focus on characters of different ages and occupations, all with some connection to Kitteridge, who plays a prominent role in some of the stories and a small one in others. While Strout’s characters find themselves in a variety of predicaments related to everything...
...might be a good place to study during exams because the couches are so comfy.” Elements such as interior bridges that overlook from an upper story connect to a lounge area below. “It’s almost like a hill town as you move through the building itself,” Hartman says. The expansive glass walls make the outside landscape a backdrop for the building’s buzz of activity, though they are not completely aesthetic. Hartman explains that most energy consumption in buildings is a result of having artificial lights...
...That Sunday I stayed in bed...fantasizing about Pilar, but not managing to concentrate long enough to jack off properly”—before bleeding into the violently physical—“[and] one testimony...of the civil registrar in a town called Totonicapán, an idiot whose foolish behavior led to them cutting off with a machete each and every one of his fingers, sliced off he saw his phalanges fall one by one”—before finally ending with the emotionally compelling—“enjoying...so many...
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