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...teacher named Susan Rachel Allan Seckler Turner is planning a scholarly study of "Twins, Doubles and Schizophrenia in the American Literary Imagination.'" She is a twin. So is her husband, Fenwick Scott Key Turner. And so is their creator, Author John Earth, whose fiction (including this novel) fits admirably into Susan's thesis. Could it be that characters create their authors and art generates life? What if everyone is really living in someone else's dream...
...conceits abound in Sabbatical, plus stories within stories, objets trouvés (newspaper clippings) and many, many footnotes. In other words, Earth is up to a lot of his old tricks. His performance this time begins with the end of a nine-month Caribbean sea journey by Susan and Fenwick. They have steered their cruising sailboat back to its starting point in Chesapeake Bay. thus describing "the closing of the circle." Now what? They have failed to make certain decisions while at sea. Should Susan have a baby or accept a tenured position at Swarthmore? Fenwick has a similar problem...
...means that telling the story of how they met forces them to start all the way back at the Big Bang. A corollary of this notion troubles Susan: "We don't believe that Harry Truman created the Central Intelligence Agency for the sake of this story, do we?" Fenwick does not answer...
...ready to get married, with few qualms and one small condition: that his fiancee pass the world's toughest football quiz. Boogie (Mickey Rourke) will never be married: he has too much fun playing the sensitive stud and limping through life with one foot in the underworld. Fenwick (Kevin Bacon) is beyond marriage: proto-hip and self-destructive, he seems to be waiting for the '60s to explode around him. Billy (Timothy Daly) wants to get married-but his pregnant girlfriend is more intent on a career in television. It may take Billy the better part...
...MOST WINNING PART of this winning picture is the deeply felt characters that writer and director Barry Levinson has sketched out. Most complex, perhaps, is Fenwick (Kevin Bacon), whom we first see punching out window panes at a dance because on a whim he has just sold for five dollars the girl he brought. At first he seems like a typical 1950s tough, who is alternating between boasting and acting morose, playing sick practical jokes on his buddies, and finally flipping out at a nativity scene, stripping to his short and insisting on playing little baby Jesus. But Fenwick...