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...know Stephen's fate, but the reader is left in little doubt. Scarcely a third of the way into the story, Drabble's narrator remarks, "But he will not die for a while yet." Instead of suspense, the emphasis of this novel falls on what it feels like to be alive and aware at a specific historical period, in this case the first six months of 1988. And Drabble's rather disjointed panorama of diverse characters caught in the amber of time produces an eerily convincing sense of life in a technologically advanced society, of the horrors that are reported...
...electronic form. Among the first to be issued on disk are Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, Melville's Moby Dick and Dickens' David Copperfield. The disks, priced below $25, are designed to run on Apple's portable PowerBook computers, which are widely considered to be more reader-friendly than IBM-type laptops...
Voyager's software displays the text on clean white pages that replicate the design of the hardback rather than using the scrolling strings of text so familiar to computer users. A touch of a button turns the page or allows the reader to flip back and forth. Users can dog-ear the corner of a page to mark their place, or attach an electronic paper clip for easy reference. Passages can be underscored or marked on the side, and there are generous margins for putting down notes...
Everything from adultery to death, love to resentment, secrecy to deceit is somehow ratified in this pungent novel about the strength and the burden of relationships. Leimbach punctuates, the gravity of the content of her novel with warmth and amusement, using her literary prowess to impress the reader without being depressing...
Leimbach's use of minutiae, such as descriptions of people to acquaint the reader with their personalities, is an effective literary device. Ginny's character is filled with details that reek of adolescence. She is savvy, outgoing , pessimistic and in love. One wonders if Leimbach's years at Harvard have not permeated her creation of this character: Ginny is the ultimate Harvard Square yuppie, dressed either in a motorcycle jacket or her bohemian attire...