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BIG RIVER.(Brookland)(Book review)
Where do the dead go? Prudence Winship, the heroine of Emily Barton's beautiful second novel, "Brookland" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $25), decided around the age of six that she had the answer. The year was 1778. Prue lived in Brooklyn, where her father owned a gin distillery. She was an only child, and dark-minded. But in those days, as she tells us, looking back on her youth, you didn't have to have a morbid cast of mind to think about death. For years, British soldiers, affable boys, had been camped in Brooklyn; they vanished daily. Fevers swept through the village, taking mothers, children. "It seemed," Prue says, "I saw the dead as often as I saw the living . . . ...
- WAR CHANGED WOMAN'S LIFE; NANCY PRUE SAID SHE WAS ENLIGHTENED BY THE WAR AND IS...
- Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) September 6, 2001 700+ words
Byline: Nancy Prue I can remember when Pearl Harbor was attacked. Excitement and horror were on the lips...country go down the tubes with socialism and communism. - Nancy Prue, 65, of Kirkville shares her remembrances of World War II.
- POLICE VETERANS DEPART DEPARTMENT; EX-PBA CHIEF STANLEY PRUE, MICHAEL MACKO...
- Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) January 17, 2003 700+ words
...week. "It feels great," said Stanley Prue, who had his share of highs and lows during...hesitation or regrets. I knew it was time." Prue, 57, who was president of the department...officer who is stepping down, worked with Prue on the police union for years and has spent...
- Prue Lith appointed Chair of the School Food Trust.
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire November 9, 2006 700+ words
...PRESSWIRE-9 November 2006-UK Government: Prue Lith appointed Chair of the School Food...has today announced the appointment of Prue Leith OBE as the new Chair of the School...delighted to announce the appointment of Prue Leith as the chair of the School Food Trust...
- Prue's on a mission to get us cooking!
- Newspaper article from: Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England) July 26, 1998 700+ words
...up delicious meals for her family. But Prue Leith puts most mums to shame. She always...pork and organically grown vegetables." Prue, aged 58, has written Leith's Cookery...last year in the Birmingham Hippodrome. Prue is enthusiastic about the venture, as...
- Curtain up on a proper Prue production; As the Queen of British Cuisine stirs...
- Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England) July 25, 1998 700+ words
Prue Leith OBE's arrival in Birmingham is big...gathered a round her for an audience with Prue. No one contradicts her ambition, which...s restaurant culture or the presence of Prue. Actually she is very nice and refreshingly...
- Turning nursing into a business: what started out as a simple idea during a...
- Magazine article from: Australian Nursing Journal Anderson, Kathryn June 1, 2006 700+ words
...having a desire to be their own boss, Prue and Julie went away one weekend to contemplate...use the skills we already had,' said Prue. Coming away from the break and feeling...too much,' said Julie. Undeterred, Prue and Julie decided if they couldn't manage...
- WILLIAM J. PRUE, 48.(CAPITAL REGION)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) April 20, 1995 700+ words
NASHVILLE, Tenn. William J. Prue, 48, of Elm Hill Pike, formerly of Albany...University Medical Central Hospital. Mr. Prue was born in Albany. He was a graduate...LaMoy of Texas; his stepmother, Marion Prue Decker of Albany; a brother, Vincent...
- If anyone can do it, Prue can do it
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London Paul Vallely July 8, 1996 700+ words
"Hello, it's Prue," said the unfamiliar voice when I picked...seconds it becomes abundantly clear that Prue Leith is unmistakably in the first of these...thought the enterprise worth the candle. Prue Leith, however, was undaunted. When...
