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Book Review from page 4 As Nabokov praised Tolstoy for bringing the business her evocation of Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain study
of childbirth into the novel, Christine Smallwood perhaps of illness and its dooming effect. And then on the strange
the American army to visit his mother’s grave, his fidelity is the entrepreneur of menstrual blood. The opening of her side, on the airplane to Las Vegas, she undertakes a vocal
to his mother is his strongest attachment, and he confront debut novel The Life of the Mind: “Dorothy was taking a conversation with a book on the futility of woman’s life and
his father towards whom he can feel no forgiveness. For shit at the library” where she is continuing to bleed six her own “ghastly excess of superficiality,” or recollections
him, history is a nightmare that fills him with excruciating days after her miscarriage. “Not the unceasing hemorrhage of Keith whispering Frank O’Hara’s poetry into her vagina.
pain as he recalls the outrages committed by colonialists of the first ten hours, now it was thick, curdled knots of So bewildered by her own insecurity, she seeks the services
against his mother’s homeland by, in historical succession string, gelatinous in substance.” This betrayal by her body of two psychiatrists. In the penultimate scene, Dorothy
the Chinese, Japanese, French and Americans. At the same is a leitmotif in the novel, and will continue to continually participates in helping Gaby secure a home abortion. Will
time, he attains the calming insight of a Revolutionary: put her off sorts and even fulfills the standard put forth Dorothy resolve her ambivalence about bringing a child
“Those who believe in revolutions are the ones who haven’t by Germaine Greer last century that “if you think you are into this vale of tears? Will she accept the challenges of
yet lived through one.” emancipated, you might consider the idea of tasting your pregnancy and motherhood, or follow up with a novel about
The Paris of the novel reflects the distinction between menstrual blood—if it makes you sick, you’ve a long a successful novelist screenwriter who is confounded by
Jean-Paul Sartre who argued for freedom defined as way to go baby.” Our heroine is caught up in her physical the artlessness of Hollywood and commerciality of success
commitment and his frenemy, Albert Camus who argued discomfort which punctuates her life at the library, at the while seeking to write her next chapter?
for commitment on the basis of a moral standard. The gynecologist at a literary conference in Las Vegas while
argument spawned the political novel which principally striving to make it in academia, which often--in many Dr. Ronald J. Meyers, a resident of La Paz, is an
explored commitment in terms of living life to the lees and instances and here devours its own. Emeritus Professor of English. rmeyers@esu.edu. 
carried across the Atlantic to infect the writing of Norman After a promising beginning, heralding a bright future
Mailer for example. In the course of the novel, Vo explores with her study of Daphne Du Maurier’s psychological
commitment of a criminal capitalist in a baker’s dozen of thriller Rebecca, now she is stuck in a rut, part time
contingent faculty while trying to manage her professional
diverse employments by the Boss, including selling hashish responsibilities. Teaching grunt required courses, and an Dear Boca Pointe
at a markup, undertaking hit assignments, to a memorable
advanced elective Writing Apocalypse while working on
assignation in Heaven, a brothel with the Cambodian super- her project relating to Confinement and the Gothic novel, Dog Owners:
sexy Madeleine where he fails to get a rise, to his suffering
torture by a rival gang led by the Algerian Arab Mona Lisa, she feels like the odd duck or old maid caught in Adjunct
in turn torturing Mona Lisa with the advanced methodology hell. Moreover, she experiences the jealousy toward her We have had a few recent
learned from his engagement by the C.I.A., to overhearing former colleagues who seemingly are poised on their complaints from residents who have
his Aunt’s engagement with her lovers, to participating in pathways to successful careers, Alexandra and Elyse with had uncomfortable encounters with
an orgy with thirteen beautiful women where in his second book contracts and flourishing sexual adventures, Micah dogs off leash around
meeting with Madeleine, he recreates the experience of shifting his focus from literature to television series, and the property. We are
falling on his knees at age seven in his first communion, to her one time lover Keith on tenure track at Johns Hopkins. reaching out to our
playing a peasant in a Tet performance at a cultural center, And Judith Robinson her mentor and former adviser seems residents to remind them
to reuniting with Lana and learning that he is the father of a to have given up on her. An afternoon with her mother at of our rules concerning
three year old Ada . The final chapter digresses from politics an underwater spectacle (which I myself attended) does keeping dogs on leashes and cleaning pet litter. As a
to theology as he presents his novel, the case of Vo’s suffering not provide her with parental support and encouragement. resident of Boca Pointe you must: Keep your dog on
before the high court of Heaven itself and seeks either And her best friend Gaby, in spite her mood swings and a Leash. All dogs must be controlled on a leash by an
atonement or forgiveness. One should not underestimate Mr. foundering marriage, still represents a compelling life as a able-bodied person, at all times, whenever the dog is on
Nguyen’s inventiveness as he renders a range authors like mother with her son Sherman. property. Also, you must clean up and properly dispose
Marx, Rousseau, Voltaire, Marquis De Sade, and of historical In addition to the unflinching support from her boyfriend of pet waste when your pet relieves itself. Knowing and
figures of the time from Martin Luther King Jr to Henry Rog, the other consolation is the life of the mind, her ability abiding by our community’s animal-related ordinances
Kissinger to Pol Pat but also a myriad of figures whom he to call up authors who engage and affirm her choices such will help make our neighborhood a better place for
endows with pop-culture monikers like the Rolling Stones, as Kafka’s satire on academia, Investigation of a Dog, a pan everyone. Thank you! 
Maoist PhD, Seven Dwarfs, the Beatles, Elvis, Crème Brule. handler on the train evokes Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner,

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