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...Jones supposes in all apparent innocence, undertake a hunting and fishing trip up the Hassayampa River. It is "a burly stream with its share of trout," which-what's this? -"rises in northern China, meanders through an Indian reservation in central Wisconsin, and empties finally into Croton Lake not a mile from where I live in southern New York State." The novel's epigraph, the reader notes with a sense of having been sandbagged, is a whimsy of the trout-fishing sage, Sparse Grey Hackle, who says that the water of the Hassayampa "renders those who drink...
Crime Supplement. Fish are clearly Boyle's primary fixation. He keeps an aquarium in his Croton-on-Hudson house, partly for receiving specimens he seines from the river, partly to exercise his empathy for finned creatures. The striped-bass fingerlings, he comments cheerfully, "were gamboling all over the tank like Labrador pups." Just as canaries were once carried into coal mines to warn the miners of poisonous gases, Boyle tends to use fish as a measure of man. Bass taken from the Hudson off Bayonne have a taint of petroleum; shad roe is more than just fishy; sturgeon taken...
...real life, Cheever country is that strip of New York's Westchester County that stretches from the Rockefeller estate in the Pocantico Hills along the wooded ridges of the Hudson's east shore to the estuary of the Croton River. "Except that he does not commute, John leads a fairly orthodox commuter's life," says his friend E. J. Kahn
...instrument is now being used to find Sybaris, the rich Greek colony in southern Italy that gave its name to the word sybaritic. After losing a war with the nearby city of Croton. Sybaris was leveled to the ground, and the Crotonians made the river Crathis flow over the ruins and cover the site with silt. Archaeologists hope that some of the city's interesting features were sealed in protective mud, but they have never known just where to look for them...
...neatly made-over barn overlooking the Hudson River at Croton. N. Y., live merry Trotskyist Max Eastman (Enjoyment of Laughter) and his husky Russian wife, Eliena Krylenko. whose brother is a Stalinist.* While white-maned Mr. Eastman works at his witty scribbles, blonde Mrs. Eastman teaches dancing, paints. After studying in Moscow, in Paris and under Manhattan's Jean Charlot, she has done capable portraits of most of her friends except her husband, whom she thinks she has yet to paint successfully...