Instead, the reader is presented with a string of romantic fuck-ups and fallouts, in which the protagonist eventually learns, if not how not to cheat, then how to empathise with and humanise women.
We would love to poll those 3 percent about lots of other topics in the news today, if we could locate the concrete fallout shelter in which they apparently reside.
In "The Final Inning," which evokes the fallout after the funeral of a young gay black man, Glave divides the page into parallel monologues, producing brilliantly idiomatic dialogue and manipulating point of view at will in order to render with unsparing exactitude the schism between African-American and gay cultures.
We hear litanies in which Fallout is the name of a demon.
As quickly sketched here, they had a fallout after a meeting in which Raul "speaks his mind".
Delahunt's novel could have delved deeper into the Bhopal fallout, but the direction in which it takes her characters and the reader is richly rewarding nonetheless.
Kim Severson reports on that decision and other fallout from the case in which a jury could not reach a verdict on five charges that Mr. Edwards, a 2008 Democratic presidential candidate, used campaign donations to cover up an extramarital affair.
Yet it is surely the inevitable fallout of a system in which Foxconn makes a wafer-thin margin on the goods it produces for Apple, and so is forced to squeeze workers ever harder.
The 69-year-old presenter said that this showed the qualities both of Entwistle and the BBC, despite the catastrophic fallout from the interview in which Entwistle revealed his ignorance about a Newsnight report which wrongly implicated Lord McAlpine in an allegation of sexual abuse.
Now, the banks that were most dependent on that strategy are being questioned by investors — in some cases to the irritation of bank executives who say they are being tarred by fallout from lending excesses in which they had no part.
