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...KNOW by Kitty Dukakis with Jane Scovell (Simon & Schuster; $19.95). What starts out as another sad story of anxiety and alcohol abuse by the wife of a public official eventually turns into a moving saga of courage as the author struggles to come back from a defeat far more humiliating than her husband's wipeout at the polls...
...KNOW by Kitty Dukakis with Jane Scovell (Simon & Schuster; $19.95). What starts out as another sad story of anxiety and alcohol abuse by the wife of a public official eventually turns into a moving saga of courage as the author struggles to come back from a defeat far more humiliating than her husband's wipeout at the polls...
Putting last things first is an old storyteller's trick, and there isn't a trickier old storyteller than Gabriel Garcia Marquez. A good example of his skill comes early in this new novel about the final days of Simon Bolivar, and it is worth quoting if only to demonstrate how a maestro establishes his theme...
...General Simon Jose Antonio de la Santisima Trinidad Bolivar y Palacios was leaving forever. He had wrested from Spanish domination an empire five times more vast than all of Europe, he had led 20 years of wars to keep it free and united, and he had governed it with a firm hand until the week before, but when it was time to leave he did not even take away with him the consolation that anyone believed in his departure. The only man with enough lucidity to know he really was going, and where he was going to, was the English...
IMAGING: Mark Stelzner (Manager); Gerard Abrahamsen, Kenneth Collura, Kin Wah Lam, Carl Leidig, Linda Parker, Lois Rubenstein, David Spatz, Lorri Stenton, Simon Tack, Paul White...