false 6714303 413257 666866 0395825261 9780395825266 3 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176932778m/666866.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176932778s/666866.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/666866.Time_Money 4.03 31 Time and Money, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. It is a meditation on loss and grace that some of us will be thinking about for a long time. "Bob Marley's Hair," which discusses the famed musician's dreadlocks falling out during chemotherapy, is as poignant as, well, "Babe Ruth at the End," the story of Ruth on his deathbed. The real gem, though, is "Dead Languages," a study in how, to use Frost's expression, "way leads on to way." Matthews tosses out fascinating examples of how words have evolved, how "Live English lugs a dead language inside." The way language mutates its way through the world, unconscious of its own changes, Matthews writes, isn't far from our own dimly understood lives: "We did what we did, we're / not proud nor ashamed, we led our lives / or they led us, and how would we know which?"]]> 1000 4.12 191 6 1995 0 0 false Mon Sep 24 12:30:12 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 24 12:30:15 -0700 2007