Word: eden
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AWARDED. To MATTHEW KNEALE, 40, British novelist, the coveted Whitbread Book of the Year award for his tragicomedy, English Passengers; in London. The epic novel interweaves the voyage of a group of bigoted 19th century Englishmen searching for the Garden of Eden and the genocide of Tasmanian Aboriginals. Kneale won the $33,000 prize by the narrowest margin ever, on the chairman's vote...
...have not revisited this memory in years. It represents, I think, a sort of private racial Eden, previous to the knowledge of color differences and all the ugliness in America that has always proceeded from those...
...civilization, with the girl Chuck left behind (Hunt). For its soul is on the beach, in its gradually unfolding secrets, its new perils and triumphs. The film has loved inhabiting the real estate of a restless, splendid solitude. So, perhaps, has Chuck; he's Adam in a more daunting Eden...
...civilization, with the girl Chuck left behind (Hunt). For its soul is on the beach, in its gradually unfolding secrets, its new perils and triumphs. The film has loved inhabiting the real estate of a restless, splendid solitude. So, perhaps, has Chuck; he's Adam in a more daunting Eden...
...huge catalog to "Made in California" tell you the essential plot line. On the left, a detail from a tourist poster, ca. 1930, showing two women chatting under a palm on a crag, with a luxuriant view of golden mountainside behind them: California as Promised Land, an earthly paradise, Eden without the snake. On the right, a photo of a suburban slide area in Los Angeles, where earthquake-stricken bungalows teeter on the edge of a muddy chasm at whose bottom lies an upside-down car. The heaven of nature, the hell (or at least purgatory) of black insecurity, both...