The

closed door is your

telling the world and yourself that you mean

business; you have made a serious commitment to write and intend to walk the

walk as well as talk the talk

reducing avoidable disadvantage, distress, and

handicap.

the environment has increased

dramatically in recent years.

The

leisurely luxury-liner

a long, absorbing novel like The

Far Pavilions or A Suitable Boy has been one of the form’s chief attractions

since the first examples — endless, multipart epistolary tales like Clarissa

Not

just by its ferocity, its beauty, and by her delightful

the

vernacular, but by its totality — she is a woman who remembers everything about

her early years