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...getting what she considers to be a fair shake from Barnes. "I've had a whole career that he's ignored," she fumed. "Then he meets me at parties and gives me a big slushy kiss and tells me I'm his favorite girl." No more Ms. Nice Guy, decided Wilson, and the next time she saw Barnes, which happened to be the night after his review appeared, she threw her drink (Scotch) in his face. Barnes' review of her performance: "I guess somebody doesn't like...
...expect a wildly experimental act-of-the-imagination, he has read too many commercial novels about uncommercial success, and he will be disappointed. Ordinary People is a quite good but thoroughly conventional novel that reads, in fact, like the old-pro product of an intelligent, thoroughly practiced veteran. Ms. Guest's hardly unorthodox subject is a middle-class American family from the Middle West. Make that upper-middle-class: the Jarretts live in Lake Forest, Ill., and father happens to be a tax lawyer. Mother runs a spick-and-span home (she is death on water spots...
Picking up the story after Conrad returns home, Ms. Guest deals with love and hate, forgiveness and the lack of it, madness and death-the themes appropriate to Greek tragedy. But she must deal with them in the terms of the well-made suburban novel. Panic equals the rattle of father's ice cube in one-too-many martinis. Despair equals the hundred small ways a Christmas Day falls apart, even when the keys to a new Le Mans for Conrad lie under the tree. Loneliness gets spelled out in the instructions on a frozen TV dinner...
...million dollars. Will the resulting cash and carrying-on spoil things in the big, elm-shrouded house in the Minneapolis suburb where the author lives with her husband, three sports-mad sons aged 16, twelve and eleven, and a female malamute named Pax? "God, I hope not," says Ms. Guest. "I like...
While you mention that Ms. Lague is 5 ft. 8 in., I think it is only fair to add that Ms. McLellan is 3 legged, 2 feet...