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Holding the line : women in the great Arizona mine strike of 1983
Barbara Kingsolver's first non-fiction book is the story of women's lives transformed by an a signal event. Set in the small mining towns of Arizona, it explores the process of empowerment which occurs when people work together as a community.
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UNDER THE ROCK
The book cries out for editing when its passages cross the line between intensity and excess, and sometimes from eroticism to misogyny. (Though, in fairness, the men are treated about as brutally as the women.) Certainly it's no picnic, the spiritual quest in an ugly world, but Mr. [Michael Ventura]'s book seems purposefully weighted down by repulsive hallucinations; readers are asked to suspend disbelief, and then rewarded with the likes of anus-dwelling snakes and talking feces. The difficulty is overtly expressed when [Jesse Wales] asks [Elaine], after their ritual in Mexico, ''You're a writer. You ever write about this stuff?'' Elaine responds, ''And have everybody think I'm silly? No, thank you.''
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Four pearls from south of the border
If you're automatically sure that you know what reality is, and you are operating on your default setting, then you, like me, probably won't consider possibilities that aren't annoying and miserable. But if you really learn how to pay attention, then you...
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