Adios Mr Moxley:
Toolan, David
IN BRIEF Adios Mr. Moxley: Thirteen SORIES. by Josephine Jacobsen. The Jackpine Press (Winston-Salem, N.C.), $17.95, $10.95 paper, 157 pp. Precision-chosen words - Ms. Jacob-sen's go thwack into...
...Continued from page 354) the past are now being used to cover Israel's real goals for Gaza and the West Bank...
...One windswept night, she sees her elderly hostess near death, in the throes of an asthmatic attack...
...She moves back, into the hall, down the hall and into their empty room...
...I'd trust her in the dark...
...Outside of that there is absolutely nothing...
...LINDA SIMON teaches expository writing at Harvard...
...Her own corruption, then, catches her unawares - almost...
...She sits on the edge of the bed and sees Bridie's face and the curve of her shoulders above the bed, as though she held the whole huge soiled object in her stringy arms...
...REVIEWERS RABBI JACK RIEMER co-edited Ethical Wills: A Modern Jewish Treasury...
...There is a contained, suspenseful edge to these stories...
...Jacob-sen's go thwack into place like digital beads on an abacus...
...This is the center of the night...
...And work they do - enough to make you flinch...
...Around it is the big strange house and, around the house, the rain and the wind...
...The scene strikes Annie with metaphysical vertigo...
...Maybelle, the cleaning lady in "Criminal Career," works for a very rich family of moral morons, clearly her inferiors...
...mark FEENEY is book editor of the Boston Globe...
...Annie is in the center of the nothing . . . I am lost, she thinks, I have no circle...
...david toolan, S.J, is book editor of Commonweal and author of Facing West from California's Shores (Crossroad...
...A husband, in "The Pear Tree," consoles his bereaved wife with a lie - and then cannot bring himself to share with her the truth when it comes...
...Gaza and the West Bank should be demilitarized for Israel's protection and given over to Palestinian control...
...The Edge of the Sea" seems an innocent story of a lovely Caribbean idyll, until a casual remark at tea reveals the deadly nature of the play...
...Bart, the recluse in "Sound of Shadows," lives in a permanent TV-stupor - until she is shocked awake, incongruously enough, by a robber's switchblade...
...That is (Continued on page 382...
...JAMES P. DEGNAN is a professor of English at the University of Santa Clara...
...The lady's maid, Bridie, had been hovering over her mistress like a madonna...
...And those goals are exactly what Shamir says they are: Full control...
...The familiar suddenly unfamiliar, gravity gone, spinning out of orbit - Ms...
...They move meticulously, with an economy of expression, toward climaxes of often terrible grace - stark recognitions and moral awakenings...
...In "Vo-cation," the absence of a doctor's smile alerts his patient to an evil whose name is legion...
...You can't imagine there could be any other words that would fit precisely or do the exacting work that she has them do...
...Jacob-sen's wits are uncannily sharp...
...Jacobsen is expert at conjuring such situations...
...What Shamir doesn't say is that such control provides Israel with a cheap source of labor, a market for its products, and $100 million each year in taxes and goods above and beyond what the occupation costs them...
...In "The Ring of Kerry," we meet the twenty-two-year-old Annie vacationing with her lover in Ireland...
Vol. 115 • June 1988 • No. 12
