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She acquires and publishes novels and manages two crime novel competitions; he is a senior editor of nonfiction books.
She acquires a parallel identity, in short, as a public figure, that haunts and sometimes supersedes the life she thinks she leads.
She acquires an American accent, gets A's in school ("because school is so easy in America even a donkey would pass") but resists her aunt's efforts to goad her into pursuing a career in medicine.
She acquires a taste for high-end prostitution, sliding into adultery not, as Emma Bovary does, out of wretchedness and ennui but simply because she can, changing lovers as if they were shoes from the new season's collection.
She acquires a foreign electric shock weapon to stun the dog; buys marijuana from the bottled water supplier, blowing the smoke into her vacuum cleaner; uses her vibrating electric washer as an aid to masturbation; and hires a stern Chinese woman to teach her pre-teen children Mandarin.
She acquires literacy and nursing skills on the march, plus the love of an Irish-American New Yorker, Stephen Walsh, who of all this horde of characters seems closest to Doctorow's own point of view — an illusionless skeptic, yet capable of courage and love.
She acquires many male admirers, and is friendly but dismissive towards their romantic attentions.
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