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-- ''Red Head got his name and visionary capacity at age nine when he ran behind an uncle chopping wood and caught the back of the axe on his forehead.'' From DEAR FUTURE, by Fred D'Aguiar (Pantheon, $22)
-- ''Two nurses with scissors could make a man naked in eleven seconds. Sid Elliott had been working Emergency eight months and it amazed him every time. Slicing through denim and leather, they peeled men open faster than Sid's father flayed rabbits.'' From FIRST, BODY, by Melanie Rae Thon (Houghton Mifflin, $21.95)
