But it's a shame that the central tale of human power games gets seriously bogged down by some clumsy stereotypes, underwritten secondary characters and plotting that would have seemed light in a teen romance.
The central tale, 'Man in a Landscape', is an Aesopian tour de force recapitulating in miniature the novel's unifying design.
This faux homespun folk tale of American lumberjacks has always been an awkward hybrid, skewed by a central speaking role – the mysterious Bunyan booming platitudes – who is never seen.
DEATH BY LEISURE: A Cautionary Tale, by Chris Ayres (Grove, $14).
Often, a central piece of that tale includes starting a business.
Directed by Janet Bogardus, "Superfudge" is more like a sitcom than a tale with a central plot line.
The academy has occupied a central place in Carson's tale for years.
Ralstonia solanacearum TALE-like proteins (RTLs) exhibit similar structural features to TALEs, including a central DNA-binding domain composed of 35 amino acid-long repeats.
TALEs have a central repeat domain that confers its sequence specificity (Fig. 1b).
