Word: tubercular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scratched an existence out of 80 South Dakota acres near Parker (pop. 1,148), Clinton Presba Anderson had made his way through his third year in college (Dakota Wesleyan, University of Michigan) by 1917. Then, after an Army doctor rejected him for officers' training camp upon finding a tubercular infection (Anderson has since suffered from diabetes, shingles in 1949, and a coronary in 1950), he went to New Mexico, spent nine months in a sanatorium, stayed on in the Southwest...
...weakling who despises prostitution but cannot stay away. Against a background of neon lights and haunting music, these women suffer, cheat, show flashes of compassion, and dream about escape. One who originally sold herself to support her son goes insane when the son renounces her. Another drives her tubercular husband to suicide by working at Dreamland to save him. And throughout the theme repeats itself: innocent girl must enter, hardened woman must stay, old prostitute must leave...
Again the novel's narrator is Darley, a seedy, itinerant Irish schoolteacher. Again the plot concerns his sexual and soulful involvements with Justine, a feline Egyptian Jewess; Nessim, her millionaire husband; Melissa, a tubercular Greek dancer. There is also an assortment of other exotics, who seem to have crawled from beneath a blistered and immemorial stone of Alexandria-Scobie, the transvestite policeman; Toto de Brunei, who dies with a hatpin rammed through his brain; Capodistria, the goatish sybarite; hare-lipped Narouz, who carries a severed head in his saddlebag; Pursewarden, who has discovered "the uselessness of having opinions...
Twisted Roads. While Justine is in the process of finding herself, those around her are losing their heads. Her complaisant husband goes quietly mad: her current lover, an itinerant Irish schoolmaster, betrays a tubercular girl friend and she dies; her first seducer, Capodistria, whose memory has obsessed her all along, is brutally murdered. In the end, Justine flees to a kibbutz in Palestine, where she becomes fat, competent and, presumably, content...
...lovers left out in the cold; In the French Style contains the despair of the aging bohemian as his last and best mistress takes refuge in marriage; Voyage Out, Voyage Home brings some fresh insights to that sturdy chestnut, the doomed romance between a healthy lover and a tubercular...