Joy William’s quirky fourth novel The Quick and the Dead follows three 16-year-old misfits in an abnormal Charlie’s Angels set in the American south-west. Driven unclearly to defend animal rights, the girls accomplish little beyond curse: they rescue a wounded ox and hurl stones at stuffed elephants. In what is structurally a road novel that ends up where it began, the threesome stumbles upon both cruelty to animals and unlikely romance. A mournful dog is killed by an angry neighbor, a taxidermist falls in love with an 8-year-old direct-action firebrand determined that he pays. for his sins. A careen across the barely tamed Arizona prairie, this peculiar book aims less for a traditional storyline than a sequence of noisy (often hilarious) conversations, ridiculous circumstances, and absurdist scene. The consequent long-walk-to-nowhere is both the book’s limitation and its charm.
All three girls are motherless. Fiercely political Alice discovers that her
A. did nothing substantive except criticizing the reality
B. protected animals successfully
C. were cruel to the animals
D. murdered their neighbor’s dog
Joy William’s quirky fourth novel The Quick and the Dead follows three 16-year-old misfits in an abnormal Charlie’s Angels set in the American south-west. Driven unclearly to defend animal rights, the girls accomplish little beyond curse: they rescue a wounded ox and hurl stones at stuffed elephants. In what is structurally a road novel that ends up where it began, the threesome stumbles upon both cruelty to animals and unlikely romance. A mournful dog is killed by an angry neighbor, a taxidermist falls in love with an 8-year-old direct-action firebrand determined that he pays. for his sins. A careen across the barely tamed Arizona prairie, this peculiar book aims less for a traditional storyline than a sequence of noisy (often hilarious) conversations, ridiculous circumstances, and absurdist scene. The consequent long-walk-to-nowhere is both the book’s limitation and its charm.
All three girls are motherless. Fiercely political Alice discovers that her
A. Mr. Ecclestone gave all the money
B. the contract time is reached
C. the 100th year after 2010
D. Mr, Ecclestone gave it $60 million
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