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...somewhere else. You just have to dignify the position you land in, because life is short, and you can't defer death." That feeling suffuses Never Let Me Go. People have manufactured a class of clones to extend their own lives, and in so doing made mortality even more vivid and imminent. The clones' struggle to squeeze an entire life span into a couple of decades makes the book at once exhausting and moving. "The memories I value most, I don't see them ever fading," Kathy muses at 31, a year after most clones have already been harvested...
DIED. GUILLERMO CABRERA INFANTE, 75, inventive Cuban-born novelist known for his offbeat humor and vivid evocations of pre-Castro Cuba; of a blood infection; in London. An exile since the early 1960s, he was best known for his 1967 novel Tres Tristes Tigres (later published in English as Three Trapped Tigers), a loving, pyrotechnic paean to the energetic night life of old Havana...
...hired a detective and began rummaging through his father's life and his own childhood, both of which were spent in Omaha, Neb. Rips discovered, for starters, that his father was raised in a brothel, which was run by Rips' great-grandparents. He revisited some vivid memories of his own childhood: a local handyman who always walked down stairs backward, a tornado that sucked his grandmother up through a garbage chute. When he was 9 years old, Rips watched a circus acrobat plunge to her death from a 50-ft. pole. (Naked Lady shares a kind of adolescent gothic vibe...
Much to my dismay, all my friends from high school seemed to have adapted effortlessly to their new university settings and were already busy having the times of their lives. Many of them sent out links to online photo albums, vivid testaments to the parties they’d crashed, the circles of friends they’d adopted. Guided by the picture captions, I experienced vicariously the thrills of their new lives: “Laur, Rach, and me~4th floor love!”— “Me, Laur, Brit, and the group?...
After showing a vivid video chronicling his experience, Canessa described his personal struggles while stranded in the Andes. With temperatures that reached negative 40 degrees Celsius, “the kind of coldness that hurts your bones,” Canessa said that he realized he could die at any moment...