Against The Day Review By Publishers Weekly

[Jasper Fidget]

On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 13:43 +0000, robinlandseadel at comcast.net wrote:
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> Which ties Against The Day to Vineland, as the Traverses figure in that fine little bagatelle of a book. Looked into Vineland this morning briefly, but will probably scrye the latter half of the book in further search of the Traverse family history.



"Zoyd's relations with the Traverses he did get in touch with were
complicated by his scab activities, though Zoyd would've preferred
"independent contractor." These were old, proud, and strong union
people, surviving in one of the world's worst antiunion environments —
spool tenders, zooglers, water bucks, and bull punchers, some had fought
in the Everett mill wars, others from the Becker side had personally
known Joe Hill, and not mourned, and organized, and if they were
allowing in over their doorsills from time to time nonunion odd-jobbing
Zoyd, it was only out of sympathy for his hair and life-style, which
they blamed on his mental disability, and love for their distant
relative Prairie, who as a true Traverse would piss on through despite
her father's shortcomings just fine." 
VL 319-320