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...Vicki Ho, 42, is one of them. To make it in GE's famously competitive culture, Ho says she needed to shed her Asian-style modesty. In her Taiwanese household, she was raised never to boast of her accomplishments. She entered the corporate world in the U.S. as an unwitting embodiment of stereotypical Asian female behavior--"diminutive, submissive, that whole geisha thing you get tagged with," she says. (It's a typical problem for Asian women executives, although one that few employers recognize, says Jane Hyun, an executive coach and author of Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling: "Here...
...women who leave him anesthetized and wistful. That was when the literary man was something of a culture hero. Bascombe has given up on that idea, although he retains some of the baggage: he has an abandoned novel titled Tangier, an ex-wife whom he calls X, and Vicki, a good ole girl from Texas who is a nurse and an effective pain killer. To earn a living, he covers ball games and interviews athletes for a weekly sports magazine. It is an honorable job and adequate compensation for his lost promise. Best of all, facts, deadlines and airline food...
...good state for a sportswriter. But as a fictional character dealing with loss and solitude, Bascombe accounts for many affecting moments. His attempt to interview a former football player confined to a wheelchair is every journalist's nightmare: a hostile subject who undermines the project. The breakup with Nurse Vicki reveals that chilling instant when involved parties realize they have little in common. The sad truth about one's limits of interest and sympathy unfolds when a man Bascombe hardly knows insists on confessing his homosexual affair...
Like her other novels, Devil's Corner is a fast-paced thriller featuring a female lawyer with an ample supply of attitude. Vicki Allegretti, a U.S. Attorney, teams up with Reheema Bristow, a glamorous African-American woman who has been wrongly accused of a crime, to expose an ever widening conspiracy of cocaine dealing and violence. Added to the mix is some hanky-panky between Vicki and a senior attorney in her office...
...Scottoline's other books, the writing is brisk and sassy, right at the intersection of the law genre and women's fiction. Vicki and Reheema make a sharp, urban Thelma and Louise. The story swings from the gritty to the grand, always with lawyerly attention to detail. "It's Philadelphia," Scottoline explains. "It's not a fake place. There's real police procedure. There's real law. I have to follow...