Word: headstrong
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...disorder in best sellers like Serpico and The Valachi Papers, proves adept at joining history to melodrama and to convincing plot twists with slightly implausible characterizations. A middle-aged New York City adman named McGuire turns into a modified James Bond to investigate the disappearance of a headstrong son, a Harvard student who was mixed up with running guns to the I.R.A. McGuire's metamorphosis may strain credulity, but his motives are authentically rooted in strong parental emotions...
...HIGH ROAD by Edna O'Brien (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $18.95). The Irish author made her reputation writing about headstrong girls dashing toward the flame of maturity; her tenth novel portrays women who have come out on the other side, badly burned...
...HIGH ROAD by Edna O'Brien (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $18.95). The Irish author made her reputation writing about headstrong girls dashing toward the flame of maturity; her tenth novel portrays women who have come out on the other side, badly burned...
...HIGH ROAD by Edna O'Brien (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $18.95). The Irish author made her reputation writing about headstrong girls dashing toward the flame of maturity; her tenth novel portrays women who have come out on the other side, badly burned...
...Victorian cameo of exquisite youth, a headstrong girl trembling on the threshold of womanhood in last year's Oscar-winning A Room with a View. Now Helena Bonham Carter, 21, is blushing again, this time as the heroine of A Hazard of Hearts, an upcoming CBS-TV movie based on the 1949 gothic romance by Barbara Cartland, 85. Author met actress during the filming at a 19th century mansion in Lincolnshire. Jokes Bonham Carter: "She immediately told me how to emanate innocence from my solar plexus. I had a disadvantage because I'm a brunet." Cartland admits that "at first...