BRIEFLY NOTED.(A Disorder Peculiar to the Country)(The Brambles)(Simon Bolivar)(The Prince of the Marshes)(Book review)

Publication: The New Yorker

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A Disorder Peculiar to the Country, by Ken Kalfus (Ecco; $24.95). Like their country, Marshall and Joyce Harriman, a Brooklyn Heights couple, are at war. They are one year into an impossibly bitter divorce, and their hatred for one another has "acquired the intensity of something historic, tribal, and ethnic." When Joyce watches the destruction of the World Trade Center she is seized by a "great gladness," because Marshall works on the eighty-sixth floor of the south tower. But he escapes to fight another day in the apartment that neither...

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