Word: vera
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...writes straight with crooked lines," muttered an old woman of the island as she poked her peevish fire. In her roundabout way, she was meaning Vera Reilly and Martin Gallagher and she was right in at least this much, that no human hand" could make straight the vexatious scribble of their lives...
...Vera is an Irish mainland girl who married an island boy expressly to escape a home she detested, only to discover that she liked her new home little better. Now that her husband is dead, she sees Martin as her new escape. But Martin has been to the mainland and has come back to his island with the knowledge "that the more we travel the more rootless we become." Truth in the Night is Michael McLaverty's story of their troubled courtship and tragic marriage, a tale as bleak as the rocky slopes and the grey loughs...
...Vera's Bubble. The trouble with Vera is that she doesn't really like herself, but rather than admit it, she has blown a big, pleasant bubble of egotism about herself. The least touch of reality, as Vera well knows, will collapse her flimsy shelter; so she lives in dread and hatred that slowly encompass almost everybody and everything on the island...
When Martin resists her idea of moving to the mainland, Vera takes to relentless nagging. She insults his friends, drives the hired boy off the island, even neglects and abuses her own daughter, the one thing truly dear to her. In the end, the daughter dies, partly because of her mother's carelessness in a crisis. Shock and a miscarriage kill Vera too-but not before her bubble has burst, and she sees herself as she is and life as it must be lived...
Married. Isaac Stern, 31, top-ranking, young U.S. violinist; and Vera Lindenblit, 24, German-born refugee, former U.N. researcher; he for the second time, she for the first; near Tel Aviv...