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First came a youngish, chic woman pushing a stroller. "That might be her!" yelled Rae--until she strolled by. Then a short, fat woman with a baby tied at her stomach. "There she is!" yelled Rae--until she got on a bus. Then a pretty, petite woman in yellow with an infant in a baby carrier. "I know that's her!" yelled Rae--and lo and behold, the woman quick-stepped into the coffee shop across the street...
...everything crazy that a lot of people do can be called a trend; it may simply be a crazy thing that a lot of people do. But it's worth noticing when an increasing number of youngish folks, more than 400 worldwide, seek to get their kicks from jumping off bridges and roofs. If this is how they behave in flush times, imagine what they would do in a depression...
...second type is from Wall Street. The party tends to consist of maybe eight youngish men in identical dark suits. They take a table and drape their suit jackets over their chairbacks so that their red suspenders can be displayed. Then they wave around thick cigars as they shout at each other at trading-pit volume about what brand of single-malt Scotch they prefer...
Clyde is a youngish man who teaches at an adult-education center in Cambridge, Massachusetts--courses like Love and Marriage, Horse and Carriage: Relationship Issues in Some 19th Century Novels. Clyde is gay, and his life is on hold because he cannot face the loss of his lover or cope with his cranky father or settle into the teaching business...
Before that comes a sketch of a youngish architect, Kay Fischer, who is trying to launch a career in Los Angeles in 1936. She meets a man named Salvador Carriscant, who claims to be her father, and eventually she accompanies him to Lisbon, where he promises to substantiate his story. That story is what follows. Why introduce it in such a distracting way? Maybe the author indulged in a little showboating. He is an expert mimic of the Hollywood hardboiled school, typified by Raymond Chandler. Good nostalgic fun, but Boyd shares Chandler's awkwardness in writing from a woman...