Nor do Catherine, Miss West and the others come alive under Mr Mishra's pen: they are ciphers to us as well as to him.
When the novel was at last published in 1995, shortly after Mrs Onassis's death and dedicated to her memory, Miss West found herself suddenly famous.
Miss West started work on it in the 1950s but lost her will to complete it with the emergence of the Black Panthers in the 1960s.
Miss West returned to Martha's Vineyard in 1947, where she lived amid her own sort of people for the next 50 years and wrote two sharp and wise novels about them.
Miss West's message was still controversial but now publishable.
Piquionne was guilty of an awful miss as West Ham pressed for that crucial second goal early after the break, putting the ball wide from only eight yards out when unmarked right in front of goal.
If Gerrard is sidelined for four weeks he will miss matches against West Ham, Tottenham, Steaua Bucharest, Aston Villa, Newcastle and FC Utrecht.
Actor Bertie Carvel, who received high praise for his performance as the tyrannical headmistress Miss Trunchbull in the West End, has transferred to play the role in New York.
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Miss Carlin has been named West Highland College's student of the year.
After grabbing another rebound and making two more free throws, West tipped in a miss and Stephenson closed the decisive spurt with another layup.
West's next miss, at the buzzer, sent the game into overtime.
The England all-rounder will miss the fourth Test against the West Indies, starting on Thursday in Barbados and is a doubt for the rest of the series.
Miss Masterman, of Kensington, west London, who has a portfolio of properties, admitted that she did not "really need to work" but was looking for a new project.
West Midlands Police said Miss Lee, who was also known as Debbie Frost and had been in a relationship with Burman, was last seen by neighbours on November 9, 2010.
His body breaks down after two seasons out west, causing him to miss the entire 2001 season before an ill-fated comeback with Mets in 2002.
Barton will miss the next six Newcastle games against Hull, West Ham, Tottenham (in the Carling Cup), Blackburn, Everton and Manchester City.
West Ham made them pay for the miss with 15 minutes remaining, Parker feeding Obinna before surging into the area to slide in the return pass, a goal his performance richly merited.
Populated by mainstream Americans and Mexican immigrants, by the working class and the retired, this hamlet is a poor outpost with Old West roots where people don't miss society and have often dropped out of it.
Pienaar is battling a groin injury which forced him to miss Tottenham Hostpur's goalless draw at home to West Ham on Saturday.
The West Ham striker's first-half penalty miss was the third Wales spot-kick miss by three different players in the last three qualifying matches.
Miss Hill is the latest victim in a spate of murders across West Yorkshire.
Mr George, 48, of Fulham, west London, denied shooting 37-year-old Miss Dando on her doorstep on 26 April 1999.
The court heard evidence from Mr Reilly, who said he picked up Thomson, Miss Young and four other friends from a pub on Paisley Road West at about 21:00 on 12 August.
He will miss Tuesday's match with Blackpool and cup trips to Millwall and West Ham on 8 and 11 January.
He was forced to miss Tuesday's superb 2-0 win at second-placed West Bromwich Albion which fired the Bluebirds to third in the Championship.
North West crown court cases are facing disruption as barristers plan to miss hearings to attend a meeting in protest against proposed legal aid changes.
Phelps (Karen Aldridge), a West Indian librarian who encourages her storytelling, and then with Miss Honey (Lauren Ward), a teacher who recognizes her intellectual and imaginative gifts and takes her under her wing.
Miss Dando, 37, was shot dead on her doorstep in Fulham, west London, in April 1999.
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