This first novel, about an extended WASP family gathered under the roof of a rambling, 200-year-old clapboard home in New England, is filled with the haphazard encounters that make up domestic life and the inflections of opinionated people who share meals, territory and belongings with uneasy familiarity.
Early entrants, seduced by quick successes among affluent consumers in one or two cities, decided to tackle the mass market, only to encounter lower prices, fragmented customer bases, haphazard distribution and vicious domestic competition.
You can look at Carol's end in many ways: as an innocent's devastating encounter with terror-obsessed police, as a ghastly but haphazard event, as a death foretold.
At many establishments, guests encounter thoughtful wine, beer and cocktail selections, with a few haphazard sodas and juices thrown in as sops for non-imbibers; a complex, made-to-order drink that replicates the cocktail experience is often out of reach.
Their encounters, which are as often violent as they are haphazard, evoke a heady host of classic American storytellers.
On opening night many of the cast members appeared to be encountering the material for the first time, under the haphazard direction of David Forman and B. J. Sebring, the husband-and-wife songwriters who are the nucleus of the show's creative team.
All species encountered were listed on a slate while swimming in a haphazard pattern covering all bottom depths possible down to a maximum of 38 m.
Generations of accidental encounters and near-misses – those bullets whistling through the corn – all leading, with haphazard precision, to you.
With his spare, sardonic visions of Paris and the Normandy coast, of French sights and French art (including a comical encounter with Courbet's erotic painting "The Origin of the World"), Hong conjures both the haphazard gaze and the refreshed imagination of the solitary traveller.
