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...early summer in a nameless Connecticut hamlet, and the Irises are wilting. Like the members of so many families who inhabit the world of contemporary fiction, those in the Iris clan are profoundly disconnected from one another. When we meet them in Angel Angel (Viking; 211 pages; $19.95), April Stevens' intelligent and moving first novel, they seem withered by their inability to achieve the closeness they yearn...
...much we forget. It was Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy--more than her brash and dashing husband, more than the glamorous daughter-in-law she outlived, even more than her martyred sons--who forged the Kennedy character. It was Rose Kennedy, in reality, who played mythmaker to America's most mythic clan...
...loved and humiliated her. She endured the haunting gossip and relentless scrutiny accorded all her family. With strictness, with humor, with a sense of style at once down-to-earth and every bit a match for her daughter-in-law Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Rose ruled and shaped the clan when sometimes it all must have been too much for her. Jackie once described Rose speaking of her life's sorrows: ``Her voice began to sort of break, and she had to stop. Then she took my hand and squeezed it and said, `Nobody's ever going to have to feel...
Dexter's accountthrough Jack's eyesof this newspaper story in the making is hip, hard-boiled and filled with memorable eccentrics. The reporters' encounters with members of the Van Wetter clan comicallyand ominouslyjuxtapose modern types with people ancient in their cunning and evil. The novel's conclusion feels a bit hasty; but for much of its length, The Paperboy burns with the phosphorescent atmosphere of betrayal...
...waters near Somalia in case President Clinton decides they're needed to help pull U.N. forces from that hotbed. "We are getting ourselves in a state of readiness," Defense Secretary William Perry said today. The 15,000 U.N. peacekeepers in Somalia have been working in steadily worsening circumstances as clan warfare there has intensified. Last month the Security Council voted to end the mission by March 31, and the peacekeepers are due to be out by February.Post your opinion on theInternationalbulletin board...