And as the climbers inch upward, armchair mountaineers around the globe follow their progress. The day after Ron Suskind's book came out in hardcover, he picked up the ringing phone on his desk at the Wall Street Journal. Ah'm reading your book, and Ah was up most half the night last night. You see, Cedric here is just gettin' ready to leave for Brown University, and what Ah want to know from you is whether you're gonna break my heart. Because if you're gonna break my heart, Mr. Suskind sir, Ah'll just put away the book right here and now.
Skepticism melts away at once.
Cunningham's novel is magical, a lovely structure of transformations and improvisations on Woolfian themes. Imagine how Bill Bryson felt upon returning to the United States in May 1995 after living in England. Not only had he passed two decades among people whose plummy accents would make them sound sophisticated even when they were spouting drivel, but he also had acquired an English wife. Nearly all of the collection's 38 poems explore in some way the conflict between order and disorder in life. It is natural to search for significance in the final year of a century.