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Throughout the story of Brian Arthur's travails, people make the kind of dramatic, pithy remarks that almost never get uttered in real life.
But in his long, moving letter-journal of early 1819, Keats explicitly raises metaphysical suffering over political or material travails.
The story of the travails of a brainy single Jewish female in New York is lauded as a "wry modern fable" (Merle Rubin, the Wall Street Journal ) that shows off Ozick's flair for Isaac Bashevis Singer-style magical realism.
But the really interesting thing about Robertson's problems is the way they highlight the key role played in the recent travails of the world economy by hedge funds--or, to use the terminology preferred by the IMF, "highly leveraged investors."
Created by the makers of the popular Party of Five , Significant Others details the travails of a soft-core porn writer and his two best friends.