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Remember “The Catch”? Willie Mays, racing back into the bowels of the cavernous centerfield at the Polo Grounds and reaching out to cradle in a 450-foot blast with his back to the infield? The ball was hit by Cleveland’s Vic Wertz in the top of the eighth of Game 1 of the 1954 World Series with runners on first and second and nobody out in a 2-2 game. Needless to say, the runners didn’t score. The Giants won the game, and went on to win the Series...
...senseless by her craypot-lugger husband, who looks for God between the bruises (The Turning). And teen tomboy Agnes, who spends her evenings wading the shallows for catfish after her drunken father is laid off from the local meatworks (Cockleshell). But most of all there's policeman's son Vic, who helps his mother clean rich people's houses after his dad leaves them, and later becomes a disenchanted lawyer. "In the end there was only a closed-down resignation," Vic says in Commission, "the adult making-do that I'd grown into...
...Like Vic, Winton was born in 1960, a policeman's son who moved from Perth to the south coast as a boy. Unlike Vic, the author hasn't much to be disappointed by. With a cabinet of literary trophies for his clean, muscular prose (Nicole Kidman is negotiating to star in an adaptation of his 2002 Miles Franklin Award?winning Dirt Music), this former small-town boy is the ultimate sea-changer. Yet in The Turning, Winton presides as the deity of disappointment - from the opening lines of the first story, Big World, where two beachcombing mates graduate from high...
...Elsewhere, Winton can seem to tread water. Using Vic as a narrative thread for otherwise disparate stories, Damaged Goods and Reunion, in particular, feel padded out. And reading about the marital difficulties of Vic and Gail can be as interesting as a bout of unsuccessful whale watching, to which his characters are also prone. Otherwise, trimmed of its middle-aged spread, The Turning is as lissome as Winton's best prose...
...specialty seems particularly depleted. Seven of the gay soldiers kicked out were musicians. Now the Army says it needs to fill 15 musician slots, including two trumpeters, four clarinetists, three saxophonists and a euphonium player. "Is there not a way to do without the euphonium player?" Representative Vic Snyder asked General Richard Cody, the Army's No. 2 officer. Cody insisted, "Bands are being stressed quite a bit," since they perform at burial services for troops killed in combat as well as for the growing number of World War II veterans passing...