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...took me to the most popular art exhibit in Leningrad, a cavernous hall filled with Latvian painting which stressed agricultural and industrial productivity. One picture depicted a truck overflowing with some fruit, and the subject of a towering lithograph was a factory full of men hard at work...
...defendants arrive at the Westchester County courthouse every day in a law-enforcement caravan that starts 18 miles away. Entrances to the courthouse are blocked by concrete barriers to ward off Beirut-style truck-bomb attacks. Participants and spectators are screened twice by metal detectors before entering the eighth-floor courtroom. Outside there are armed police everywhere, seen and unseen...
...steers the family car through the windy roads of upstate New York Shirley marries her high school beau Jack (Leo Rossi) and starts racing cars to earn extra money. Soon the family is spending weekends driving to races with her car, built by Jack, hooked on the family truck...
...story never really gets going. In the second section, called "Pitch Dark, "Kate travels to Ireland for emotional recuperation and stays at the country home of an American diplomat. Unnerved by a slight accident involving her rented car and a truck on the way from the airport to the mansion, Kate, further depressed by the rainy climate and inhospitable people, decides to leave the country after only two days. Losing her cool, she abandons the car in a vacant lot and departs amidst exaggerated paranoia, fearing that the rental agency will have her apprehended before she leaves. Back...
...taking off. After setting into the Irish mansion, Kate begins to describe her surroundings and develop a relationship with the staff of servants, weaving a world which for the first time draws the reader in. Likewise, after abandoning the car, she hitches to the airport with a truck driver and it is here that the book's most interesting dialogue takes place. These are the rare occasions when the reader catches Kate outside of the stifling confines of her mind. During moments like these, Adler reveals a true gift of storytelling but she never carries through with them. They...