At one time, Zeigler's Department Store had a grocery department and a hardware department, but no longer. 1990; Penguin, 1991 The store assortment has changed. The role of the department store has changed. Downtown Walley has changed. And, perhaps most significantly, Murray has changed. When the story opens, Murray's
As with "Friend of My Youth", the bulk of "Five Points" concerns a story told by one of the characters, Neil, who is speaking of events from his past, when he was a boy in British Columbia. 1990; Penguin, 1991 In both stories, the story rooted in Neil's
Immediately I like Corrie. When Howard Ritchie comes to dinner, he has some reservations about her. But I liked her. Random House, 2012 "She seemed both bold and childish. At first, a man might be intrigued by her, but then her forwardness, her self-satisfaction, if that was what
Once a year, David travels to visit Stella; they have been divorced for 8 years (they were married for 21 years), and this year he brings Catherine, the woman he is with. But Catherine is not his "new girl"; that is Dina -- without the 'h' -- whose picture he
"Frances is loitering by a second-floor window of the high school in Hanratty, on an afternoon in early December. It is 1943." Loitering: it's a significant word. There is something unsanctioned about her presence there. And, yet, she is a high-school teacher. But she has no business being on the
