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BOTSWANA BLUES.('Mortals')(Book Review)
Ray Finch, the hero of Norman Rush's lengthy new novel, "Mortals"(Knopf; $26.95), finds many things annoying. A teacher of English at an Anglican school in the southern African nation of Botswana, he harbors frustrated literary ambitions and sardonically reflects, apropos of a huge opus sent to him from San Francisco by his younger brother, Rex, that he is "on the point of being dragged into collaborating with someone seeking the lowest form of literary immortality as established and pioneered by the annoying James Joyce, who thought it would be such a good idea to create puzzle palaces for thousands of specialists to wander around in forever."A contract C.I.A. agent, Ray ...
- A sort of civil service: the VHOF annually allows merely mortal journos to hang...
- Magazine article from: Video Business DiOrio, Carl December 5, 2005 700+ words
...high-profile rollout of high-def format Blu-ray Disc. VHOF annually allows merely mortal journos to hang out with an Olympic assemblage...But the high-profile showdown between Blu-ray and the rival high-def format HD DVD has been...
- Norman Rush. Mortals.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
- Magazine article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction Picone, Jason September 22, 2003 700+ words
...since Mating (1991), Mortals is a rich novel of sexual...Rush's protagonist, Ray Finch, is a contract...matrimony, argue over Ray's continued involvement...intellectual probing raises Mortals to the forefront of contemporary literature. Ray's romantic idea that...
- Number one detective agent; New American fiction.('Mortals')(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) May 31, 2003 700+ words
...trenchant novel, "Mortals" dissects intelligence...triangles. At its heart, "Mortals" isn't about political...intrigue, but a marriage. Ray is a quiet school-teacher...offbeat. The bane of Ray's existence, his brother...the political side of "Mortals" sometimes feels contrived...
- Give the Man an Oscar: Jamie Foxx's Pitch-Perfect Ray.(Arts&Entertainment)
- Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY) November 8, 2004 700+ words
...obstacles he'd faced in his life, Ray exuded a confidence that can only...comes as close to reincarnating Ray Charles as any mere mortal could be expected to come. After...increasingly sensual Jamie Foxx-Ray Charles persona. Kerry Washington...
- Mortals.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: African Business October 1, 2003 700+ words
...The Full Cupboard of Life. Mortals is the final book in Norman...transition from apartheid, Mortals chronicles the misadventures...expatriates. The main figure is Ray Finch, a white academic specialising...and a political conversion. Mortals examines with wit and insight...
- Violence and Violation in Africa.(Mortals)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: World and I Ross, Robert April 1, 2004 700+ words
...mortals on an African odyssey MORTALS Norman Rush New York: Alfred...recurrent preoccupations in Mortals--an immense and immensely...that in the larger picture all mortals are destined to spend their...just one of these characters, Ray Finch. The other four are fully...
- Norman Rush's `Mortals,' love in the time of confusion.(Knight Ridder...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Campbell, Geoffrey A. August 12, 2003 700+ words
...At its core, "Mortals" is a love story...CIA operative named Ray Finch. Ray is passionately...inextricably bound when Ray's work for the...the plot for "Mortals" is fairly predictable...I did not want Ray to be made a cuckold...the conclusion of "Mortals." ___ Visit the...
- `Mortals,' by Norman Rush; Knopf.(The Seattle Times)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Upchurch, Michael June 11, 2003 700+ words
...together"), and it permeates Ray's wandering, word-play...thoughts on any number of matters. Ray's (and Rush's) concerns...each digression, especially as Ray, at every turn, contemplates...declares itself in funny ways." "Mortals" itself, in all its unruly...