Word: bittersweetness
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Marti Leimbach's new novel, Sun Dial Street, explores the depth and permanence of this filial "tattoo" and weaves it into the fabric of her witty and sensitive novel with literary innovation. After penning Dying Young, which won her critical acclaim, Leimbach creates an equally bittersweet story that sparks the reader's imagination with its details and elicits a sense of identification with its down-to-earth depiction of events...
...sort of bittersweet tale Hans Christian Andersen might have spun. An old man with a vacant stare was discovered sitting in a wheelchair at a dog-racing park. Two attached notes identified him as an Alzheimer's patient in need of round-the-clock nursing care. Outrage and sympathy poured in from around the country, and complete strangers offered to take...
...chronically fickle, are having careers while their ex-husbands have custody of the child, or are just plain contemplating the legacy of their past revolts. "Oh we've burned our bras and we've burned our dinners/ And we've burned our candles at both ends," is her bittersweet assessment in 80's Ladies. Meanwhile, Trisha Yearwood sings about a woman with such a sense of autonomy that she demands men "who will cry on my shoulder" but won't "follow me around." And in the new video for the song Is There Life Out There? Reba McEntire refuses...
...Room with a View and Maurice). With A Room with a View and their handsomely managed compression of two Evan Connell novels into Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (1990), the team found a ) fresh, elliptical vigor. Here were snapshots of family scenes that, when flipped briskly, revealed society in bittersweet autumnal splendor...
...novel comes out small and ordinary. Maybe it's because screenwriter Robert W. Lenski and director Glenn Jordan treat every event in Alexandra's life (a family quarrel, a sudden death) as if it were a scene from Knots Landing. Or maybe it's just that Cather's bittersweet picture of frontier life can't be reduced to greeting-card sentiments...