Word: valleys
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...washing windows, making minor repairs, and tuning up Ryan's fleet of five cars and a truck. Estate employees rank in the top 10% of their academic class. Currently they include Mounir Khoury from Jordan, a former professional chef now a pre-med student at San Fernando Valley State College; Allen Shores, a public administration major at U.C.L.A. who plans five parties a month for the Ryans; Roger Bengtson, a U.C.L.A. history student whose hobby is landscape architecture. A botany student once catalogued the trees and plants on the property...
...VALLEY OF BONES by Anthony Powell. 242 pages. Little, Brown...
Twitching Thread. In The Valley of Bones, No. 7 in his series, Powell picks up the life of Nicholas Jenkins, his all-seeing narrator, shortly after the outbreak of World War II; it ends about a year later after the fall of Dunkirk. At 35, Old Etonian Nick is a somewhat overage second lieutenant assigned to backwater posts in Ireland and Wales, where he passes his time studying anti-gas warfare and reading Thackeray's Henry Esmond. The shooting war, which largely flows past him, interests Powell less than its effects on the worm-eaten aristocrats and upper-middle...
...types in the army. He is linked to them all by the warp of a social fabric that Powell understands as well as any writer now working, and by the long arm of coincidence, which Powell nudges more shamelessly than any novelist since Dickens. When a character in The Valley of Bones moves, another character inevitably twitches at the end of a fictional thread that may stretch all the way back to A Question of Upbringing, the first in his series. Nick has a casual conversation with a fellow officer, and a memory floats Joyce-like to the surface...
...Pivot." The battle lines for the Capes were sketched while George Washington was encamped in the Hudson Valley in even direr distress than at Valley Forge. Lord Cornwallis had taken Charleston and was moving up to fortify Yorktown...