Every law firm has its backroom bench of brilliant workaholic nerds ferocious in their commitment to the law and to their clients. Such a player is Milton Bernstein of Abbott & Windsor. He's highly valued by the partners for his skills, but untested in the courtroom. Milton's younger brother, Hal, is his polar opposite-strikingly handsome, a high-school baseball legend in St. Louis who was on his way to the major leagues until he destroyed his prospects in a motorcycle accident. Hal had been, an...
When Alejandro, known as "El Mono," dies, leaving a young daughter, his brother and his closest friends are concerned about the little girl, since all his assets are tied up in the contract of a soccer player who doesn't make goals.
It is, in a sense, a prose "Aeneid," " "written with so much economy and constraint that the reader is only aware at the end that he has been following the wanderings of a hero. Thus did Andrew Nelson Lytle, in a 1934 "New" "Republic"" "review, capture the essence of Caroline Gordon s novel inspired by the life of her father, a supreme hunter and fisherman. Caroline Gordon wanted to call her novel The Life and Passion of Aleck Maury, an apt title for the story of a man passionately drawn to the...
