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Something That Is Gone |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Linda Simon |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1999 |
| Size: 1,755 Words, 11,144 Characters |
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THE LAST RESORT
Alison Lurie
New York: Henry Holt, 1998
321 pp., $22.00
Since 1962, when she published her first novel, Love and Friendship, Alison Lurie has carved out a special literary territory: troubled marriages in academia, bewilderment among the intelligentsia. As Lurie sees it, being well read and articulate does not guard against bad, bumbling, or silly choices. Erudition does not grant immunity from the longings that beset a wider range of humanity: the desire to transgress the boundaries of one's identity, to break some rules, to seek excitement--even, perhaps, a bit of wildness.
Among her eight previous novels, perhaps the best known is The War Between the Tates, published in 1974, which charts the messy marital problems of a political science professor...
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... Wordsworth's "Ode: Intimations of Immortality."
Book Info:
But there's tree, of many one,
A single field which I have looked upon,
Both of them speak of something that is gone.
Wilkie's imagined brush with death teaches him to look not at what might be gone tomorrow but at what is here today: the ancient copper beech tree, his good wife, and the small delights of each moment.
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