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...Brent's life touched many people at Harvard," said E. Andrews Grinstead '97, his roommate. "He touched mine, and I was very thankful that he was my roommate and that Christ was the vision for his life...
Thanks to the magic of Anne Tyler's fiction, Delia Grinstead, the heroine of Ladder of Years (Knopf; 326 pages; $24), is largely freed from such constraints. Married straight out of high school to a doctor 15 years her senior, Delia now finds herself in a comfortable Baltimore home with three nearly grown children and no intelligible reasons for staying where she is. She reads paperback romances out of boredom and feels excluded from the fun. "She was," she tells herself, "a sad, tired, anxious, forty-year-old woman who hadn't had a champagne brunch in decades...
...Tourist and Morgan's Passing) again blesses her subject with a comic sensibility. The world of Ladder of Years is not one where acts produce serious moral consequences. Delia reads of her disappearance in the newspaper: "A slender, small-boned woman with curly fair or light-brown hair, Mrs. Grinstead stands 5'2" or possibly 5'5" and weighs either 90 or 110 pounds." Her understandable response: "For heaven's sake, hadn't anyone in her family ever looked at her?" And it doesn't take long before Delia acquires as many emotional obligations in her new life...
Raised in East Grinstead, a working-class town south of London, Sullivan attended Oxford, where he read history and dabbled in drama and debate. While president of the Oxford Union, he met Peretz, who was participating in a debate on Middle East policies. Sullivan subsequently attended Harvard, where he earned a master's degree and worked summers at the New Republic; he returned to Harvard to complete his doctoral dissertation on conservative philosopher Michael Oakeshott...
...more are being completed); guests dine inside 50-ft.-long boxcars, salad is served from old baggage carts, brakemen's lanterns light the tables, and a treasury of railroad relics line the walls. To ensure an ample supply of artifacts, the company has just bought the entire East Grinstead Station in England, well known to Sherlock Holmes fans...