Review: Class of 1985

Reviewed Work(s): The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler; In Country by Bobbie Ann
Mason; Winter's Edge by Valerie Miner; Family and Friends by Anita Brookner; The Dead
Woman's Sister by Blair T. Birmelin; At Her Age by Marian Novick; Manny & Rose by
Joan K. Peters; Angels All over Town by Luanne Rice
Review by: Barbara Rich
Source: The Women's Review of Books, Vol. 3, No. 7 (Apr., 1986), pp. 11-12
Published by: Old City Publishing, Inc.
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 Class of 1985
In Winter's Edge, Valerie Miner takes us to
by Barbara Rich San Francisco, particularly to the city's Geary
Street, which runs the gamut from theatres to
The Accidental Tourist, by Anne Tyler. New York: Knopf, 1985, 355 pp., $16.95 hardcover. seamy Tenderloin, euphemistically called the
In Country, by Bobbie Ann Mason. New York: Harper & Row, 1985, 245 pp., $15.95 hardcover. "downtown community." But she does a lot
Winter's Edge, by Valerie Miner. Trumansburg, NY: The Crossing Press, 1985, 184 pp., $7.95 more: through her loving but unsentimental

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paper. eyes, we become newly aware of all the facets
Family and Friends, by Anita Brookner. New York: Pantheon Books, 1985, 187 pp., $13.95 which go into creating a jewel of friendship be-
hardcover. tween two women.
I.
The Dead Woman'sSister, byBlair T. Birmelin. New York: Schocken Books, 1985,212 pp., $17.95 Chrissie and Margaret have known each
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hardcover. other for 30 years; working-class women, they
live in the same apartment building. Each of
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At Her Age, by Marian Novick. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1985, 258 pp., $15.95
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hardcover. their lives has been hard, but their individual a

Manny & Rose, by Joan K. Peters. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985, 309 pp., $15.95 hardcover. spirits are indomitable, although expressed in t

Angels All Over Town, by Luanne Rice. New York: Atheneum, 1985, 292 pp., $15.95 hardcover. ways as different as they, and their apartments,
are. Margaret is the older: 70, more frail. By
Last year was a good one for women is suffering from Agent Orange. He has pim- way of henna rinses and attention to her ap-
plesad-
writers of fiction; established writers that won't heal, and pains that come and pearance, she has no difficulty in "passing" for
Valerie Miner.
ded to their body of work, and many go. Reading about what they eat, one is a younger woman. She has been married,
others had first books published. If there is atempted to blame all the symptoms on mal- abandoned, buried one child out of three. Physical appearance means nothing to
common denominator linking the novels con- nutrition. Margaret works behind the cash register of a Chrissie; passionate activism is all. She waits
joined in this brief overview of the year's out-This sounds mean, and it's not meant to be. news shop, where she sits with her feet resting on tables at a neighborhood caf6 and is cur-
lt's a way of expressing disappointment in a
put, it might be that of a strong sense of place. on the warm body of her beloved dog, Slocum. rently involved in a local supervisor's election
This is a quality not as valued, perhaps, as book of fine intent. Vietnam is a part of our And she is not immune to the pompous race. Chrissie's candidate is a black woman
when Willa Cather was making the plains andpast which will not go away; like Emmett's charms of a Unitarian minister, dedicated to with the proverbial shoestring funding, while
prairies sing for her readers, but it remains p>imples,
a it still festers. And Mason knows her his own comfort and good causes. her opponent is a man determined to bring
fine accompaniment to notes struck by goodKentucky, and is briliant at sharing it with us.
writers.

As one who spent much of her life in Balti-

more, I can attest to the fidelity with which
Anne Tyler captures the essence of the city, its
insular neighborhoods and clanmish residents.
29 WEST 35th STREET, NEW YORK, NY 10001
In The Accidental Tourist, her latest and best
book to date, she once again celebrates a group
of endearing eccentrics to whom life happens Don't Bet on the Prince Women, Feminism and
while they're otherwise engaged. Contempornry Feminist Fairv 'ales in Biology
North America and England
We meet Sarah and Macon Leary, a couple Lynrda Birke
Jack Zipes Describes the way in which feminism
in their forties, one year after the random A unique anthology in three parts, Don't has concerned itself with biology, what
shooting of their only child. He is a man of 1ff1
Bet on the Prince presents: Feminist biology has to say about women, and
harmless compulsions, behavior he comes by fairy tales for today's child by such presents a new vision of biology in the
0 authors as Angela Carter and Judith Vio- context of feminist theory.
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brothers, similarly singular, were abandoned including tales by Ann Sexton and Mar-
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garet Atwood; and collected essays of The Childless Marrie
feminist literary criticism. An Exploratory Studv of CoupLes
tion in which Macon finds himself no later February 1986 277 pp. Who Do Not Want Children
than page six. #9888 518.95/cloth Elaine Campbell
After struggling to live alone, albeit with cat A sympathetic and intimate account of
Now available in paper! the childless careers of seventy-eight
and dog, the breaking of his leg in a bizarre ac-Bobbie Ann Mason.
cident leads him to return to the family home, Sex, Clow, ad Culture people that allows the childless to speak
Lillian S. Robinson candidly for themselves.
something llyler males do with astonishing Sam's father was killed in Vietnam before Tavistock
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regularity. Macon earns his living writing littleshe was born, and she's haunted by everything books are still hard to find." #9777 833.00/cloth
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as he does. It is an ideal occupation for him- And by what Emmett went through there- Emory University
A collection of essays that develop an Women, Power and
helping out those "accidental tourists" forcedhow it was to be "in country," which is what
to travel for business not pleasure, who want to veterans call Vietnam duty. She is also being
original Marxist-feminist critical theory Subversion
and apply it to literature, the visual arts Social Strategies in British Fiction,
feel, by way of information on suitable hotelspressured by her mother to join her in Lexing- and mass media. 1778-1860
and restaurants, that they have not left home at ton, to go to college and make something of March 1986 c. 388 pp. "A carefully wrought and deeply con-
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all. herself. Her mother, too, used to live on the vincing study which combines Marxist
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incorrigible Welsh corgi, to provide the cata- and ranch house, she is a virtual evangelist on Feminist iterarv Criticism December 1985 224 pp.
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life. Ahd life comes, in this case, in the form of Every problem, every character, is filtered Coppelia Kahn
"The editors' own impressive contribu- Sexual/Textual Politics
Muriel, one of the most captivating characters for us through Sam's mind. Which is not, in
tion to the book establishes the context Feminist Literary Theorv
'l1yler has ever produced for her readers. truth, all that stimulating. within which we are meant to read the TorilMoi
Muriel, from the wrong part of town, not the And then it occurred to her that Emmett rest of the essays, demonstrating the "Intended as an 'introduction to fem-
comfortable enclave of Roland Park the au- multiple perspectives feminist schol- inist literary theory,' this book exem-
might have the same problem as Tom. It
arship brings to our understanding of plifies feminist literary theory at
thor knows so well. Muriel, with her fierce de- seemed so obvious now. That was why he its rigorous best."
'the social construction of woman.'"
sire to train the dog into docility, to embrace didn't have any girlfriends. Maybe Emmett -The Women's Review of Books -The Wonmen's Review of Books
the world with her skinny arms, to bring Ma- even had an actual wound, nerve damage of Nov. 1985 259 pp. #4147 525.00/cloth December 1985 195 pp. #9450 825.00/cloth
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con to the realization that some people "come some kind. ibm said he didn't have a
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wound, but maybe he did. Emmett didn't
together for reasons the rest of the world
want a job because men had jobs to support
would never guess."
families, and if they couldn't have familes,
A lot happens in this marvelous book, and then why bother? It seemed a simple expla-
although its fmal resolution might not be as nation. Women wanted jobs to prove a The Spinster and Feminism in France
Her Enemies From Mav'68 to Mitterand
defmnite as some would wish, it is all any of us point, but men had jobs because of
Claire Duchen
has a right to expect of either life or literature. women. (p. 130) Feminism and Sexuality 1880-1930
For the first time in English, the evolu-
The Accidental Tourist encourages one to Sheila Jeffreys tion of the women's movement in France
laugh aloud and to weep quietly. It's difficult The book has 245 pages; too many are filled is described, including an introduction
Challenges traditional interpretations of
to see how Anne Tyler can top it, but there's lit-with variations on the above. to the work of feminist theorists such as
turn-of-the-century feminist history,
Luce Irigaray and Helene Cixous, and de-
tle doubt that she will. There are some nicetouches, however, along arguing that feminists of this period
scriptions of the developments, conflicts
the way: "Sam realized that Ronald Reagan should not be dismissed as "frustrated
and splits in the movement, accompa-
spinsters", but rather viewed as enlight-
Bobbie Ann Mason won the 1982 PEN! looked exactly like Dagwood Bumstead." And ened campaigners whose efforts for
nied by the words of the women involved.
Pandora Press
Hemingway Award for Shiloh and Other Sto- Mason is great at describing a typical South- women's rights over their bodies did March 1986 162 pp. X12.95/paper
ries, and it would be lovely to report that the ern Sunday dinner, complete with "green jello more to help their cause than the so-
quality of writing in her latest, In Country, is salad." Some good, evocative stuff, but not called "sexual revolution" of the 1920s. A Feminist Dictionary
Cheris Kramarae and Paula A. Rheichler
equally high. Unfortunately, it is not. What enough to get Sam's continual ruminations Pandora Press
February 1986 252 pp. 89.95/paper
A journey through the English language
Mason has done is to write a severely interior out of our hair. from diverse feminist perspectives.
In Country comes to life in its very last
novel. We get so far inside the head of her main Pandora Press
February 1986 587 pp.
character that at times-too many times -the pages, when Sam, her grandmother and 828.95/cloth 812.95/paper
space becomes claustrophobic. Emmett reach Washington, DC, where they
Samantha, called Sam, is a seventeen-year- have gone to see the Vietnam Memorial. They
old girl living in Hopewell, Kentucky. She find Sam's father's name on the wall, and
shares a beat-up house with Emmett, her Viet-
nam War-damaged uncle, and a cat named
Moon Pie. Sam's primary fear is that Emmett
there's a kind of communal epiphany. It's a
strong ending to what is, essentially, a one-
note novel.
Rpjutledge &I(an?iflui
9 9FST 35gh STREET, NEW YORK WOO) A DI'ISION OF .METHUFEN, iNC.

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change to the community: progress at the ex- We are carried to Paris, to Hollywood, the pence But the journey is not easy, nor conclu-
firm, there's an office for him to go to every
pense of people. This is the kind of battle Riviera. We feel the sun and touch the pave- sive; not on the woman taking them, nor on day.
the At night, he eats in a neighborhood res-
which totally engages her energies, and she ments. What then disappoints about Family reader. The Dead Woman's Sister examines taurant, "going down the menu" in a spirit of
longs to involve Margaret in the fight. and Friends? Perhaps it is the sheer repetitive- comfortable assumptions about universal sis- gustatory adventure. There is even the fantasy
What is the basis of the loving friendship be- ness throughout the already slender book. terhood; it is recommended, discomforting of remarrying -to Rose's Chinese nurse. The
tween these women? What, after all, do they Told by an omniscient narrator, it could with- reading. destruction of that dream precipitates his own
have in common? In this slim book, it all out damage have been shortened by half, decline, and leads to the final weaving together
makes a kind of splendid sense - an unbreaka- which would leave the remains an extended Aside from their common territory, some- of all the strands of this complex book.
ble bond forged out of womanhood. short story. thing else unites these first novels, At HerAge, Meanwhile Ellen has been cruelly deprived
Miner has given us, too, the gift of a sup- For one who has waited impatiently for each Manny&RoseandAngelsAllOver Town. It is of a deserved career boost; she sends Max and
porting cast of characters we would like to fol- new Brookner release, and who rejoiced when a tenacity of spirit which enables one to ex- Lizzie off on a trip, retreating to an ashram
low throughout their lives. Gay Ernie, who her fourth, HotelDuLac, won the 1984 British plore that uneven adventure known as life. where she hopes to find some semblance of
finds an unlikely lover. Candidate Marissa Booker Prize for literature, her latest seems a peace. But
Washington, full of guts and principles. Gu- trip not worth the trouble. For a book to work,
She was annoyed with talk about massaging
drun, who needs (and earns) more money than one must care for-must identify with-at the kidneys to release the toxins. She wanted
she gets waiting on tables at the Mummer's least one character. No member of this novel's to talk about the news, abstract art, sex,
Cafe; and the rest of the regulars and tran- cast meets this requirement, and it was with a Latin American generals, anything. And
sients who wander about a section of Geary lot of sadness that I finished Family and that rarely happened. The slogans cloyed.
Street we feel we are a part of too. Friends, feeling untouched. On the bathroom mirror: "To a wise man,
Tlhe range of Winter's Edge is wide: from nothing is bad.".. . She was hungry all the
Woolworth's on Powell Street to pricey time now, seeing chocolate truffles before
her eyes, eclairs, napoleons, rocky road ice
Sausalito, and from local politics with far-
cream, food she never ate. (p. 256)
reaching implications to the death of a pet. All The next four books all have New York
I
of it is important because the people are. City settings. Three are first novels; Blair Peters takes us from one generation to an-
T. Birmelin's The Dead Woman's Sister C., other, never missing a beat. She is writing
Margaret, who had listened carefully to all
is her second. The finite territory covered in about a Jewish family in 1976, but these are
the steward's instructions, was now relaxed
this unsettling book is Manhattan's Upper simply the specifics for the universal themes of
enough to sit back and enjoy the view.
West Side, and the lives that go on behind each her novel. It is a full plate that she has taken on,
Flying above the clouds. She thought she'd S

never experience this until she was dead. apartment door. C and she arranges its nutritious ingredients in a
C.
Maybe she was dead, on her way to heaven. Elsie Marie Duvenek is an elderly spinster thoughtful yet passionate design. Manny &
In heaven. After all, she was holding her whose entire life has been spent under the Rose is full of wry humor, delight in small
daiquiri and Chrissie was right beside physical and emotional rule of her slightly things and the importance of going on to the
her... (p. 182) younger sister, Evelyn. When Evelyn dies the Marian Novick. next challenge. Attention is also paid to the
Lucky Margaret. Lucky Chrissie. Lucky surviving woman must fight her way out of a fine line separating sentiment and sentimen-
readers of this excellent book. lifetime of dependent isolation. This she does, tality. This is a promising debut.
with varying degrees of success and failure, by Marian Novick writes of aging and what it
Since 1981, Anita Brookner has been turn- way of fragile connections to four other does, not only to the aged, but to the percep- AngelsAll Over Town is a catchy title for an
ing out exquisitely drawn portraits of women women. tions of those who observe it in others. In At unusual novel with a conventional plot. If Lu-
successful in their professional life, but con- Mrs. O'Connell, a neighbor with a self- Her Age, she presents us with a 75-year-old anne Rice in real life doesn't have sisters -
senting victims in relationships with the men centered, troubled daughter, is the first portwoman in it would be worth lining up to hug. most probably two - she is on intimate terms
they love, often obsessively. Perhaps her status this solitary woman's storm. But is she really a Not for Molly Vorobey the title "Senior Citi- with the workings of a trio as different as chil-
as an authority on eighteenth- and nineteenth- haven? Isn't her first allegiance to Francine, zen," nor the Florida home where residents live dren of the same parents can be. Which is con-
century art contributes to the precise impact who resents an interloper moving into her in color-coded cottages. "A group of con- siderable.
each word/stroke seems to have. Family and crowded space? The fat, lonely young woman nected repressions; a complex: yes. But cot- The territory here ranges from Newport, RI,
Friends is Brookner's fifth novel; it is a depar- is a fascinating character, whose tenuous hold tages? The cement blocks resembled cottages to East End Avenue, with stops along the way
ture from her previous efforts, as well as a on stability is threatened by Elsie Duvenek- about as much as an IBM plant resembles in Connecticut and various European capitals.
let-down. who represents, perhaps, a preview of her own Aunt Jemima's kitchen." So, clutching her In spite of sea and sand and occasional foreign
The author's usual narrow scope has been future. modest savings, Molly sets off for New Yorkambience, the atmosphere is that of rarefied,
enlarged, as well as her time-frame. The Dorns There is the sense all through this disturb- City and the Hilton. While one may question upscale New York City: Greenwich Village, art
are an East European family transplanted to ing, carefully crafted novel, that those who can her choice of hostelry, it would be impossible galleries, expensive coops and restaurants.
London. Sophie (Sofka) and her four children truly connect with even one other person are not to root for Molly as she evades recapture by Una Cavan is a soap opera actress, destined
live in luxury, supported in style by the family blessed, and an emphasis on the loneliness fed the Florida home and by Sheila, the bitter for biggerthings. She loves her work-the peo-
business established by Sofka's deceased hus- by fear which affects, particularly, women. At Scarsdale divorcee determined to track her ple she meets, the opportunities to travel to
band. Sofka rules with a well-gloved hand; twoone point, a policeman who has come to inves- wayward mother down. plugthe show. Her life seems charmed. But her
of her children remain ruled and two rebel. tigate Evelyn's death stops in at the O'Connell Before the inevitable happens (and even this thirtieth birthday is breathing hot and fast
Sons are more important to this mother apartment to use the phone. Francine asks to has some surprises of its own) we are treated down her neck, and her younger sisters - Lilly
than daughters, and Frederick and Alfred speak with him before he leaves: not only to a song of resistance, but to a tour of and Margo- have found their mates. Lily's
could not be more different. The former, titu- such diverse examples of city life as the Rus- choice of Henk, a seemingly bloodless Dutch
lar head of the family, leaves home for a life of"It's about Miss Duvenek, the dead sian Tea Room, iloomies and Fifth Avenue, psychiatrist, gives every indication of being a
self-indulgent captivity; Alfred replaces him atwoman's sister, the one in the kitchen," for the Museum of Natural History and Colum- disaster, while Margo's involvement with
there was a look in the officer's eyes that
much cost to himself. The daughters, too, fol- bia University-this last being where Molly is Matt, a sunny innkeeper, is as wholesome as
told her he wasn't going to make any dis-
low this division: Betty caters to self alone, and forced to hide out in her grandson Justin's yogurt. During a stay at Matt's inn, Una meets
tinctions that weren't strictly necessary. She
winds up a bitter Hollywood exile, while Mimi
hurried on: "My mother and I don't. .. grubby dorm room after she loses her money Sam, and after the requisite number of misun-
follows instructions. It is all very neat, if un- didn't even know them well. Sure, we went to a mugger. derstandings, they seem embarked upon a
tidy. As Sofvka lies dying, to the same church, and we lived in the same Reading The Dead Woman's Sister almost promising future by the time we turn the last
. .. it is of Frederick and Betty that she concurrently with At Her Age, comparisons
building for years, but you know how it is in page.
thinks. She sees them quite accurately: the city. People keep to themselves." between forms of aging were inescapable. And Set down like this, it all sounds pretty rou-
bathed in sunshine, in clothes that are not He nodded. It was a fact with which he painful. We bring so much of our own inner tine. What saves Angels All Over Town, and
quite serious, exiles, no longer young. They was utterly familiar. (p. 22) resources to everything that happens to us, and makes it a novel to relish, is the relationship
are her favourites, now as then. For Mimi
there is less on tap for some than for others.
After afall in the street, and hospitalization, among the sisters, and that of Una and her ac-
and Alfred she has only tendernss, respect,
Miss Duvenek becomes a charge of Molly's
the cup is full, and if there is one flaw in
city's tress friend, Susan. Wakcening from a dream
acknowledgement. But, in death, as well as
in life, it is the absent one who will see to it social services network. And it is through the her story it is that too much time is spent on about catching a lovely blue fish in her arms,
that the business will remain unfinished, ministrations of two black women, one com- flashbacks to her past: to her early life with Una reflects:
and farewells unad: it is the prodigal who passionate, the other exploitative, that she husband and lover. This woman's present and I had felt so proud to hand it over to my
does not return who makses the idea of takes her faltering steps to some form of inde-future (yes!) are much more engaging and oompaDion. This blue fish is for you, I had
goodness a mockery. (pp. 166-7) brimming with promise; perhaps Novick will thought, and she had known what was
consider a sequel. meant. I wasn't sure who my oompaniion
was, but I knew she was female. Females,
DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH AND PLANNING Joan K. Peters and Luanne Rice are young beginning with my sisters, hadl been my
most loyal, my most satisfactory com-
SCRIPPS COLLEGE writers to welcome. If all frst novels are as au-
pnons. (p. 157)
Chremont, Califoria tobiographical as they are said to be, these
women have fertile ground to till for years. Adding to the novel's chars are the fre-
SCRIPPS COLLEGE invites appications for the position of Director of Research and Planning. quent appearances of Una's dead father.
Manny & Rose, which Peters dedicates to
Appointment Ls effeeJuly 1, 1986 or as soon thereafter as possible.
her These visions are less metaphysical than ob-
Scipps Colleg. a member of The Caremont Colleges, is a small, independent, four-year liberal a parents, begins with Rose's death. By
book's end, we have come to know the Her- scurely ordinary, and the conversations be-
college for women. The curriculum offers a progrm of ine ina sndies grounded in the humanities.
induding paiaidy strong ares of study in the fine arts, litea , luages, hisomry, psyhology and man family: Manny, Rose, their daughter tween the two (e only appears to his oldest
science. Located in Southem Califoria, the College has a divere student body of 600, an FMIE faculty of 60,her husband Max and their own daugh-daughter) are wonderful. Sample: Una is fly-
Ellen,
ter, Lizzie. And to be involved in their lives. ing to Europe and there he is, alongside the
and staff of 86.
The Diector of Resarch and Planning, a senior level position rporing tO the President, is responsible planec, wearing a white robe.
Rose's death is a blow to Manny: he is 73
for working with appropriate groups wihin the College to design and implement planning strateges for the
years old, and only in the last years of his wife's He motioned for me to roll down the hot
College; monitoing pgess tward Colleg goals; dewloping and maintining a program of institutonal
h ; and providing the College with analyses pertinent to policy decison and priorities planning. terminal
The illness has there been anything ap- window, and I did, as if it were a window on
Diector for Research and Planning serves on trustee and admiistrative com ttees of the Colkge. proximating peace in their Queens apartment. the Volvo.
Qualifications: Experince in Planning. Excellent verbal and written communicatons skills. Knowledge of an unhappy woman, spilling out her 'The Concorde, that's my girl," he said,
Rose was
techniques, analytcal methods and procedures to provide quality infornation for decision-making. Must patting the sleek hull with one hand. SThe
frustrations onto husband and daughter in a
possess a high degree of motivation and be able to work with a wide diversity of people. A Masters Deee is Cavans go first class or we don't go at all."
bitter stream. Ellen fled to Manhattan, where (p. 183)
required with a terninal advanced graduate degree preferred.
Salary is competitive, with an excellent fringe benefit progam. she took advantage of all the diversions open
This is a funny, well-written, life-loving,
to seekers in the sixties. When we meet her, she
Review of applications will begin on March 17, 1986 and will continue until the position is filled.
sister-loving book. It makes me want to see
Applications, complete with the names of three references should be sent tO: and Max are in a troubled marriage held to-
gether by their enchanting child and memories
what Rice does for an encore. O
PresidentJohn H. Chandler
Scripps College of the past.
Claremont, Califoria 91711 After the first shock of Rose's death sub-
sides,
Scripps College is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer and strongly invites and encourages applications Manny
from finds himself almost giddy with
minorities and women. freedom. Still a member of an accounting

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