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       Jennifer Lash, author of numerous novels, completed Get Down There and Die in 1977.  The story concerns David Carlisle, who witnesses a man being roughed up on the subway and becomes obsessed with helping him.  Carlisle soon finds himself a prisoner in a remote Irish cottage, captured by the person he was obsessed about saving.  Despite his predicament the protagonist optimistically comes to realize that "if you have heart enough to keep pace against the grey, you have joy enough to know that you are glad."