Word: walquist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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HERE IS THE UNLIKELIEST GOOD NOVEL of the year. The wambling hero of Walter Kirn's SHE NEEDED ME (Pocket Books; $20) is a pale young fellow named Weaver % Walquist, who, becalmed and lacking direction, joins the antiabortion protest squad of an evangelical church in St. Paul, Minnesota. He collides with a pregnant young woman named Kim during a protest at an abortion clinic, and at first is attracted to the idea of saving her fetus and her soul. Then, faintly -- a puff of wind ruffles the calm -- he is attracted to her. Kirn, author of a 1990 story collection...
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