Word: annelies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...adorn the lockers of teenage girls. Salma Hayek and Halle Berry do Revlon ads. Also modeling are Jennifer Lopez (L'Oreal), Kyra Sedgwick (Saks Fifth Avenue), Brandy (Cover Girl) and Gillian Anderson (Emanuel). Athletes, politicians, businesswomen and writers are getting ads: Katie Roiphe and Serena Altschul do Coach, while Anne Klein has a whole "real people" campaign featuring the likes of Ann Richards, Faye Wattleton and Kim Polese. The cover girl for September's Vogue, the biggest issue of the year, was Renee Zellweger, and last month it was a superglamorous Oprah Winfrey. Even the last fashion-magazine holdout against...
Truth be told, the plot is hardly action-packed or particularly original, but this doesn't mean that Evening is any less interesting to read. Minot saves us from boredom through her experimentation with words, which becomes the true focal point of the novel and admirably recreates Ann's sentiments and state of mind. At times, the boundaries of grammar dissolve into an endless stream of images that jump from fragments of one remembered moment or conversation to another. Smelling the balsam in a cushion someone gave her, for instance, sets off a chain of memory in which...
...fluidity of Minot's language is not as jarring as it might be. We always know that her narrative is moving forward toward something, although like her characters, we must wait for it to arise. Ultimately, Minot conveys the sense that there is nothing extraordinarily unsettling, or sad, about Ann's years of waiting. Similarly, there is nothing extraordinarily sad in the conversations Ann's children have among themselves...
...fact, although tragic things happen to them, there is nothing inherently tragic about any of Minot's characters, partially because they are never really developed as solid individuals with weaknesses we can identify. They are, rather, presences, whether the powerful presence of Harris, or the flirty presence of Ann's friend Gigi Wittenborn. We get a sense of two Anns--Ann Grant and Ann Lord, the Ann of her youth who was dazzled by Harris Arden, the older, married Ann who has spent her life waiting--yet it is difficult to place how exactly they are different except in name...
...leaves murder. Characters are killed before they speak so that their role in the play always seems an afterthought.. If this review has given little mention to the acting, it is because the acting is overshadowed by a radicalizing interpretation. Though Egan's well-spoken plottings, Queen Ann's lamentations and Queen Margret's prophecy would occasionally break through, it does not do so often enough...