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Framed by a dystopic post-World War II South Africa--where the economy has moved from rural to urban, Afrikaner nationalists have risen to power, and apartheid is testing its wings--the story airs these larger happenings through the muggy lives of its young protagonist (the book spans years 10 through 13) and his family: his father, a nonpracticing attorney whom he despises; his mother, who is too close to him and to whom he is too close; and a younger brother, who he suspects may, at heart, be normal.
(You know something's going on when the Globe devotes two pages to a behind-the-scenes look at PBS's Antiques Roadshow .) Perhaps that's why they devote so much ink to happenings in the world of celebrities' dogs.
Many years before the New York “happenings” of the 1960s, Berlin Dadaists were organizing races between a sewing machine and a typewriter, with writer Walter Mehring and artist Georg Grosz as jockeys.
(For earlier in the week happenings on the Lewinsky scene, see other items below.)
I hope you'll renew your donation to the Herron Gallery and join us for another year of terrific contemporary happenings.