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...rematch of last weekend, Harvard dismantled the Quakers, although junior co-captain Louisa Hall once again fell to intercollegiate No. 2 Runa Reta. In the Crimson’s 6-3 win over Penn the previous weekend, Hall was overcome by Reta’s athleticism and tricky shot combos, losing in three games. This weekend provided a closer match, with the two All-Americans swapping games until Reta eventually prevailed...
After going undefeated in her first four matches of the season, junior co-captain Louisa Hall, the Harvard No. 1, suffered her second defeat in as many weeks. In a battle between All-Americans, Hall fell to intercollegiate No. 2 Runa Reta...
Hall, ranked No. 3 in the nation, experienced her first loss of the season a week ago against No. 1 Amina Helal of Trinity. Although Hall returned to her familiar dominating form against a weaker Amherst opponent last Monday, Reta was able to preserve her undefeated record this season with a combination of tricky shots...
Last summer, when she sat down to write Unless, Shields knew what she did not want: a cancer book. Instead, she wrote about Reta, a middle-aged novelist whose daughter Norah has abruptly dropped out of college to panhandle on a Toronto street corner. Norah won't speak; she wears a sign around her neck that reads, simply, GOODNESS. Reta is Shields' not-quite alter ego, and like Shields, she is discovering a realm of pain she never knew existed. "The whole sense of sadness, of the end of things, of the broken vessel--everything is there," says Shields...
...Reta narrates her predicament in the first person, circling it doggedly, chattily, sometimes with a deliciously malicious wit, taking us inside her domestic routines, her comfortable, functional marriage, her kaffeeklatsch, her struggles with her own new book. (Along with everything else, Unless is rich with practical advice for the would-be novelist.) Shields swings easily from comedy to tragedy and back again--she says she doesn't really believe in the distinction anyway--pausing in between for a disquisition on the biology of the trilobite (a prehistoric creepy-crawly), an expert demolition of literary journalists (no offense taken...