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...ENTERING EPHESUS by Daphne Athas. 442 pages. Viking...
...Bishops with their three daughters arrive in Ephesus, a tiny college town in the South. They are destitute, and despite the war boom that is about to start, they stay that way, thanks to father's "ruthlessness about the unimportance of money." What the Bishops do have plenty of is "Bishopry" -an elusive but tensile esprit that makes them feel different, not to say unique...
...Entering Ephesus is about being adolescent in that family, and the author manages to make most practitioners in the crowded coming-of-age field seem calculating and niggardly indeed. This is not one of those tightly written, masterly constructed narratives of one watershed season when "Everything Changed." It is an ungainly, exhilarating chronicle of five years in which things changed and changed and changed...
...prettiest daughter, Irene. Most of the novel is devoted to Urie, who is 13 when the book begins; she is an avowed bluestocking blessed with ambition and "a thick ego." Then there is Sylvia, 11, a charming but unfathomable sprite who is called "Loco Poco." Shortly after arriving in Ephesus, Urie forms an intense friendship with an ignorant but brilliant local boy named Zebulon Walley, whose ego is diaphanous and who attaches himself to the Bishops like a starving kitten...
...centrally placed conceit of Two Sisters is somewhat trickier. It is Eric's film script, The Two Sisters of Ephesus...