Amongst women by john mcgahern5/26/2023 The fourth volume of Caro's epic biography of Lyndon Johnson tells the story of Johnson's tenure as vice president and then, after Kennedy's assassination, as president. It dramatizes the change from a moment when character in England could be trusted to a moment when all truth had to be questioned and when deception itself became an art. The book has a lovely, breathless, natural feel, like someone trying to put a shape on experience that is both deeply sad and almost comic, or at least infused with irony and a sort of dark laughter. The genius of this novel is in the tone of voice and the structure. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford (1915). It has a great timeless quality - like something Jane Austen could have written, or George Eliot. McGahern's story centers on the life of Michael Moran, a widower in the Irish midlands in the mid–20th century. Robinson handles the intricacies of her mind with real tenderness. Glory, at 38, has come home to tend to her elderly father. From this modest material, Robinson creates panorama as well as moments of exquisite intimacy. This middle novel of a trilogy set in the American Midwest revolves around two elderly clergymen and their families. They both enjoy and deplore the world, all the time seeking a timeless space where the soul might thrive. These luminous, melancholy, and graceful poems are works of great technical assurance and fully contemporary.
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