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...emaciated and weak that the weight of a cherry would lacerate his stomach. Duras also includes a chilling portrait of the Gestapo officer who arrested her husband and who then, impressed by Duras's literary reputation, tried to court her, confiding his dreams of owning an art bookshop. Duras does not neglect the vengeful postwar period, when Resistance members continued the battle, taking their turn at torturing and executing collaborators. No recent memoir has evoked the 1940s in France so eloquently or paid such close attention to suffering and emotional numbness. The diarist spares no one, neither the victims...
Harriet (Harriet Walter) is Snow's partner at the bookshop which they own, seemingly discontented with her simple role selling books and her inability to attract Snow's attention. She finally manages a congenial smile when Neara, the author of a famous series of children's books, walks into the bookshop...
...people living in a small boarding house and the pitifully dispirited turtles, all that is left is to witness the two thieves' metamorphosis, of course, never overstated. After Neara and Snow regain their long-lost youthful courage by plotting the theft, Snow turns to Harriet one day in their bookshop and compliments her on her dress. No emotional plea, or philosophic soliloquy. Just a couple of kind words and a coy blush from Harriet...
...decision to switch to the Plympton St. bookshop was prompted by dissatisfaction with the Coop's handling of book supplies and deadlines that were too restrictive for the department, Marius said...
...Expository Writing Department broke with tradition this semester by shifting its book orders from the Harvard Coop to the smaller Grolier Bookshop because of what the department's director characterized as unaccommodating service...