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… green valley. That her destination is the ruined gate of Rocomadour, high above her in the sun, she never seems to … on the step with a clatter and shrieks: “Diane! Diane Dieudonne! The Little Fool, the Little Fool, she has … Tower. In the Tower they keep forever, the leeks, angelique also, and pate-de-foie. My mother showed me. Come too.” …

… deal about the man who would be my father-​in-​law: the comedy of overstating the obvious, the irony of noting the … was Walt. Was because Walt is no longer in this world. He died eleven years ago at the age of eighty-​one, having … tell him I’ll take that too. Hey, I want to live.” But Walt also struck me as someone ready to die, at least more ready …

… economical style, this is a book that likes its subject. It comes in at under half the length of Jackson Benson’s … Steinbeck was dependent on women.” This sentence reveals Parini’s method as well as his central theme. He allows … three-quarters of Tortilla Flat in a month. Olive Steinbeck died in February 1934. John finished Tortilla Flat during …

… it that it looks like a tired, old dachshund, it is comfortable and suits me. Other people, though, want to see … matchbox cars, and Masterpiece Theater on Sunday night. I also write about small things because they bring me letters. … I felt guilty, but after I explained what delayed me, the audience clapped and the talk was a success. Still, I …

… road to autonomy . . . what the 20th-century mind has come to label identity . It’s this search for identity that … come with the complicity of enmeshment: the creation of a false self, a self that is “passing” as a dutiful son or … voice, his commanding authority suggesting unquestioned obedience. After the third phase—the charge given and then …