cient monies, and an excess of governmental interventions); we are as interested as he when new owners take over the airport café; we are pained over the bitterness between the leaders of the Block Island Residents’ Association and some of the members of the town government (they don’t speak). We learn again to appreciate the Periclean democracy of the New England town meeting, huddle with the author in a grinding blizzard, relax with him over drinks and Parchesi with his friends.
The narrative grace gains from the immediacy of detail and incident and the universality of the simple exchanges between the author (who ingratiated himself quickly, although distinctly an “off-islander”) and his year-round Island friends.
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