Word: zeman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PAST TENSE by Jack Zeman...
Long-married couples are experts at small talk, but it has resonances that outsiders cannot guess at. Using the common language of memory and observation, Zeman, 32, crowds a barren stage with children growing up, leaving, marrying and having children of their own, of a husband's ordeal by alcoholism and his conquest of it, of Emily's witnessing her small son being crushed by a truck. The true protagonists are pain, humor, fury, the terrors of aloneness, a remembrance of good sex past, and an abiding perception of love amid its ruins...