VLVL Father of the year

[jbor]

Still not sure about those moral yardsticks, but:

       At first it had seemed like a terrific idea, a perfect break
    for them both, at a critical time. Sasha had been there too, to
    see her off on the flight, she and Zoyd handing the half-asleep
    Prairie back and forth, arms to arms, like a rehearsal of
    arrangements to come. (56.22-25)

This description of how Prairie gets handed back and forth between Zoyd and
Sasha at the airport relates pretty explicitly to Zoyd's sudden change of
heart and his decision to dump Prairie on Sasha and chase after Frenesi on
that dodgy red-eye flight to Honolulu. And there is an implication in that
last clause that this was a common occurrence as Prairie was growing up.

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on 20/9/03 8:40 AM, Terrance wrote:

> Zoyd's neglect of his daughter is
> not quite as bad as the abuse so many of the kids in this novel have to
> put up (not from the government but from their baby-boom parents), but
> Prairie is constantly complaining about his lack of parenting skills,
> his pot smoking, his sexual proclivities, and so on.  The moral yard
> stick is in the text.