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Nothing Lefty says or does comes out right--especially his adoption of a protégé, a young jewel thief called "Donnie Brasco" (Johnny Depp) who turns out, of course, to be an undercover FBI agent.
Richelieu’s protégé Mazarin, another cardinal, took over the job of prime minister during the minority of Louis XIV.
Instead, he repeatedly accused his hack protégé, Malcolm Gladwell, of cheating by writing parody, which was prohibited under the rules, and filled the Hackathlon referee's e-mail box with his whining.
Through them--plus a cache of invisible-ink letters Maggs writes to Phipps in order to acquaint the protégé with his protector--we look into Maggs' tortured soul, and witness an Oates in all but tumescent pursuit of Maggs' life story, which he will exploit for his next best seller.
Harben was apparently a protégé of Joel Chandler Harris, who wrote the Uncle Remus stories; Northern Georgia Sketches is dedicated to Harris, "in grateful acknowledgement of the kindly encouragement which made this book possible."