Occasionally he goes home for three or four days — "love, sex, fatherhood, home-cooked food" — but more and more he dwells in the limboland of Vegas, "sitting in leather recliners in the sports-book parlors, hunched under shade canopies in the poker rooms".
There's his law school training, which underlies the novel's evidentiary process, and a previous book on parlor games — The London Review's puzzle comparison struck closer than its reviewer realized.
The homey atmosphere of Hannah's book-strewn parlor is soon hot with talk of things theological over Chinese food and pinot noir.
Blain Roberts is an associate professor of history at California State University, Fresno, and author of the new book Pageants, Parlors, and Pretty Women: Race and Beauty in the Twentieth-Century South (UNC Press, March 2014).
The Beauty Box, was a coffee-table book about beauty parlors in The South.
Likewise, its Rapid Rewards frequent-flier program, introduced in 1987, has been as simple to use as a pizza parlor coupon book.
Minna's stories, many spoon-fed to a writer named Charles Washburn for "Come Into My Parlor," a book Ms. Abbott cites frequently, have a theatricality that wards off any candor.
I returned to the table with a book-matched old Washburn parlor guitar and a Takamine nylon classical.
Mr. Baroni, a Republican from Hamilton, is sponsoring a bill called the Shopping Center Revitalization Act of 2004, and he aims to save those once-glorious strip malls from decaying into weedy lots dotted with third-hand book stores and tattoo parlors.
Little Saugerties supports two independent bookshops - Inquiring Minds (helpful staff and coffee/soda bar) and Our Bookstore (rare and used books in a parlor-like room) - a rarity when most towns many times its size sadly don't have any.
