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...thing, which is, truth to tell, no more than a flirtation without a fruition. Blanchett and Owen do what they can with it - she is alternately coy and bawdy; he is blunt, refreshingly lacking in courtly wiles and drawn to one of her ladies in waiting (the winsome Abbie Cornish) - which is not very much...
...told he is to become a father, his face, caught in the light of a window, floods with tenderness. Ledger appears to act only when his character must-to hustle for the couple's next fix. Otherwise his performance is fakery-free. As the sun Dan orbits, Abbie Cornish carries the same dreaminess she first displayed in Somersault. If she never quite plumbs Candy's depths, that's because she remains in Dan's eyes an ideal. Also directing their gaze is Svengali figure Casper, boldly played by Rush, Armfield's friend and colleague for a quarter of a century...
...include the Catalans, whose domain stretches from around Béziers in France to Barcelona in Spain. The more that globalized trade and political union try to make us homogeneous, the more need there is for a stronger local personal identity. Even living in London, I glory in my Cornish roots. I travel widely, but the only place where tears well up is when I cross the Tamar River, the boundary between Cornwall and the rest of England. Paul Cloutman London I am an outsider in Scotland 's remote Orkney Islands, where there is a huge effort to keep alive...
...inquirer will never know, but Davies' readers are luckier. Two unearthly spirits appear bearing privileged information. One is the Lesser Zadkiel, an assistant to the Recording Angel; the other is a daimon called Maimas, who steered Francis Cornish through his existence. Maimas insists that he was nothing so wimpish as a guardian angel, a role he describes as "detestable theological fraud." He did not shelter his charge from evil but hounded him mercilessly: "My job was to make something of Francis with the materials I had at hand...
...people." That is no longer true, at least in his case. What's Bred in the Bone has garnered raves from Canadian reviewers. Which seems fitting, since this novel, like most of his other fiction, draws heavily on the author's experiences in his native land. Elements of Francis Cornish's troubled youth come straight from Davies' memories: "As a child, I was beaten up by Catholic kids every day after school. As a newspaperman in that area, I knew families that had idiot children hidden away in attics or barns. It sounds grotesque. But it is the way things...