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Like O'Faolain, Julia Scully uses the memoir to reveal yourself to you. The primer begins in the emotional void of a San Francisco orphanage where Scully ends up after her father's suicide. By the time she rejoins her hapless mother for a make-do life in a makeshift roadhouse in godforsaken Alaska, "the smell of stale beer and cigarette smoke" is perfume to her, the rough miners princes. She works like a dog and builds an inner structure that gets her to Stanford and then to New York City, where she becomes a successful editor...
Acknowledging a Void...
...seems to have been an exceptional year for women at Harvard. Many say the College has finally recognized that Radcliffe's increasing marginalization in the lives of undergraduate women has left a void that Harvard must fill...
...reason, according to some, is that this trend toward the visual has lead to an impoverishment of the quality of public discourse, giving opinion journals an increased role in filling the void...
...Robert left a void that was never filled,"Newfield writes. "No one came after him who couldsimultaneously speak for the unemployed blackteenager and the white worker trapped in a deadendjob and feeling misunderstood...