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"Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered that she had turned into the wrong person." The woman is Rebecca Davitch, a fifty-three-year-old grandmother. On the surface, Beck, as she is known to the Davitch clan, is outgoing, joyous, a natural celebrator. Giving parties is, after all, her vocation -- something she married into after Joe Davitch spotted her at an engagement party in his family's crumbling nineteenth-century Baltimore row house,...

These novels record the emergence of John Dos Passos as a chronicler of the upheavals of the early 20th century. "In One Man's Initiation:" 1917 an idealistic young American serving as a volunteer ambulance driver in France learns of the fear, uncertainty, and camaraderie of war. "Three Soldiers" engages in a deeper exploration of the impact of World War I upon an increasingly fractured civilization. The novel depicts the experiences of three Americans...

Prose and poetry by an experimental writer. In Patagoni, he writes: "the indians liked to pick a spectacular spot and then get just behind it--para occultar--this true, certainly of machu picchu, probably chavin & san agustin / yesterday the filthy train from Machu Picchu--today Aviacion Fawcett DC-4 to Lima--life here, like the mountains is tilted, faulted and stratified."

Man discovers he is sterile and must accept another man's child as his own.