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...from the panic room with impunity, yet the same ignited gas burns the incompetent thief, Junior (Jared Leto), despite the thick wall of concrete and steel between him and Meg. The survival boxes in the panic room contain fire blankets and mouthwash, but no food to alleviate the diabetic daughter??s drop in blood sugar while trapped in the panic room. The plot jerks such movements in such a contrived manner that the audience is able to predict the film’s inevitable conclusion...
...Lowell House for several years, during which time he held down a day job while playing in a rock band. (He now lives in Germany.) His younger sister Sarah, who also grew up in Lowell, graduated from Harvard College in 1985 and lived in Quincy House. To make his daughter??s Harvard experience as normal as possible, William Bossert packed up his car as if the family were going to take a long road trip—and drove around the block to drop her off in Quincy. Though the former Master insists that he and his daughter...
...narrator watching the prison guard collect the food requested, which includes drug-laced baked goods; a spontaneous game of “strip fondue” with friends from the office; a mother testing whether she can taste pasta in another person’s mouth—her daughter??s. The Devil’s Larder is a series of creative exercises, a chance for Crace to illuminate these strange but deeply felt moments bit by bit, in simple prose that contrasts starkly with the richness of the world he portrays...
...writing), the translator and the daughter (an archivist and the narrator). So basically it’s about language, obsessions with textual characters, a threesome with your mom and lots of paper. A major part of the novel is the family story, typically dysfunctional and told through the daughter??s memories triggered by the diary entries...
...daughter??s soccer practice,” said Richard Freierman, one of Walser’s managers. “She’s going to be a lot happier than she was last night...