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Kennedy for the Defense is an account of the events that take place while the lawyer attempts a holiday with his wife and teen-age daughter, dubbed Saigon because it was her timely birth that kept the attorney from being sent there. Kennedy is a variegated yarn of third-rate perpetrators, second-class citizens and first-person encounters. But it works. Under the author's increasingly deft touch, events blend like coffee and Irish whisky, and conversations ring as true as coins on a mahogany...
Yellowfish is a searching novel of the contemporary Pacific Northwest that relies on an unchanging principle of the American adventure yarn: free, capable men enjoy bending the law, especially when they can keep moving at high speed. The book's title is slang for Chinese immigrants who illegally enter the U.S. Its hero, Wesley Erks, is heir to the frontier spirit, a man with "an eye used to sighting down a fence line and the barrel of a shotgun." But Erks is also a thoughtful man for whom yellowfish begin as a commodity to be hauled...
...outdone, Austin sports a 165-ft.-tall, man-made metal tree shining out over a Santa's Village of shops in a turn-of-the-century setting. Atlanta's capitol holds its own 31-ft. Eastern red cedar, bedecked with red ribbons and 2,000 white yarn snowflakes painstakingly crocheted by the state's senior citizens. Boston's golden-domed statehouse backs a Common of white-lit trees. In Sacramento this year, because the capitol building is undergoing reconstruction to strengthen it against earthquakes, only two 10-ft. firs herald the holiday. And in Washington...
...sort found in the Wall Street Journal, which is not surprising since both Gartner and Executive Editor James Gannon are Journal alumni. Reporters are encouraged to write imaginatively about offbeat and humorous subjects. After two weeks in Cedar Rapids, for example, the new Register bureau chief filed a delightful yarn about how the city's street plan made it impossible to go north. This kind of creative license adds to the esprit de corps in the newsroom. Says Managing Editor David Witke: "For many of the people on the staff, the Register is the place they most wanted...
Gloucester glared an American Gothic chagrin at 19th century religious mutants who sought to reform their church under the stern eye of local bigots and skeptics. These sectarians later became known as Unitarian Universalists and Christian Scientists, and the Gloucester people still chuckle at this historic yarn and shake their heads...