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This isn't a science-fiction extravaganza. Ishiguro wisely keeps the focus tight and close on everyday life. He follows the trio's feuds, their adolescent trysts (eventually they form a classic love triangle), their hopes and their slow awakening to and acceptance of the gruesome sacrifice that will be expected of them. ("After all, it's what we're supposed to be doing, isn't it?" says Ruth.) Cut off from the world, the children become pathetically obsessed with anything that might give them a tiny taste of what life is like for normal people. Ruth's most deeply...
Kidd borrows liberally from her first novel--a trio of salty, independent island women is reminiscent of the beekeeping sisters of Secret Life--but her writing is so smart and sharp, she gives new life to old midlife crises, and she draws connections from the feminine to the divine to the erotic that a lesser writer wouldn't see, and might not have the guts to follow. "Yes, there was transgression and betrayal and wrongness in it," Jessie says of her affair, "but also mystery and what felt like holiness, an actual holiness." --By Lev Grossman
Back on the ice, Banfield and Corriero played forward alongside Dartmouth junior Cherie Piper with the Sharks. Donning blue uniforms, the trio had a distinctive look about them...
...what the trio lacked in size they made up for in skill, leading the Sharks to a provincial title in their first year together...
...same result, Donato never hesitated to embrace the increasingly steep share of the offensive burden that was heaped upon his and his linemates’ shoulders, particularly in his final year when he was both captain and a member of the first line. Then, as today, the top trio wore green jerseys when practicing, a coincidence not lost on Donato or his teammates...