Word: luckless
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...10th anniversary of Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, there's growing concern both in the U.S. and abroad that continued sanctions are not only causing terrible suffering among Saddam's luckless subjects, but have also failed miserably as a strategy to bring down his unlovely regime...
More concerned with plot than pathos, Brown presents his characters without judgment or sentiment, a courtesy he extended to all the luckless, hard-drinking, rootless denizens of his previous work. On the strength of his bleak, intimately detailed portraits of blue-collar Mississippians, and his insistence on setting his stories in and around his hometown (a region fictionalized by William Faulkner as Yoknapatawpha County), Brown is being celebrated as a new voice of the South, or, as he's also been dubbed, one of the "bad boys" of Southern literature...
...young to care for it? What if the infant is sickly and seems likely to languish no matter how well it's looked after? Humans agonize over these situations, but mothers throughout the animal kingdom show a surprising willingness to abandon or even kill such luckless young rather than pour energy down a bottomless reproductive well...