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Although Denes favors legalized abortion, In Necessity and Sorrow provides a tacit indictment of the practice. The material gathered inclucates in the reader the distressing impression that abortion by any other name would be murder. Yet, on a more intellectual level, it stands as a defense of the right of individuals to control and exercise responsibility over their bodies...
Another hoax, another spoof, some will say. More fictitious documents, more fun and private jokes at the expense of the ingenuous reader, the whole history of America being the province this time of my (or my master's) invention. Maybe so, but this, as I have been at some pains to show, is a pedestrian and unimaginative way of approaching the truth. A last word of reassurance then (if it is still needed): I exist! The Prescott family existed! These chronicles exist...
...honor of the world's oldest laissez-faire enterprise?). Cyrano, in fact, might have been named Loophole. Buckley charters the boat for much of the year, making him eligible for depreciation allowances on it, deductible expenses, etc. He alludes to such arrangements but spares the details. The reader is envious enough...
...produced six more offspring. Although her husband's laundries fail on both coasts of the U.S., her growing family maintains a beleaguered survival. To Brave Orchid, all non-Chinese are "ghosts," alien, powerful presences who are otherwise beneath consideration. Her new life consists of uneasy dealings with "Meter Reader Ghosts, Tree Trimming Ghosts, Five-and-Dime Ghosts." She is even suspicious of her children, her daughter notes, "because we had been born among ghosts, were taught by ghosts and were ourselves half ghosts." So she "talks-story" incessantly, trying to fill her daughter's head with a usable...
Desperate Hedonism. Is J.J. Wolfe really the murderer? Through most of the book, neither Bone nor the reader can be quite sure, though circumstantial evidence certainly points that way. In any case. Bone cannot stop Cutter's quest for "justice." True to form, he tags along through a series of manic misadventures involving more sex and booze than sleuthing. Tension mounts. Can respectable Wolfe be responsible for the fire that guts Cutter's house and kills his girl and their baby son? Finally the odd pair journey to Wolfe's home in Missouri-and doom...