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Marti Leimbach's new novel, Sun Dial Street, explores the depth and permanence of this filial "tattoo" and weaves it into the fabric of her witty and sensitive novel with literary innovation. After penning Dying Young, which won her critical acclaim, Leimbach creates an equally bittersweet story that sparks the reader's imagination with its details and elicits a sense of identification with its down-to-earth depiction of events...
...History is not so easily intimidated. When World War II begins, his adolescent son Joey (Tony Gillan), inflamed by news of the death camps, enlists in the Navy with tragic results. The surviving son, Charlie (Tony Shalhoub), becomes a prosperous novelist but fails at everything else, from marriage to filial affection. Zaretsky's very life is a reproach: the "dying man with a dead language and no place to go" becomes a millionaire and survives to age 93. Eddie, ever the loser, is incapacitated by a stroke...
TURNER AGREES THAT THE MEDICATION HELPED calm him down. But Pittman's second contribution was to help Turner exorcise his father. To understand why Turner and the father he worshipped had no ordinary filial competition, consider this: when young Turner did something bad, his father Ed beat him with a wire coat hanger. When young Turner did something very bad, Ed once ordered his son to beat him. "He laid down on the bed and gave me the razor strap and he said, 'Hit me harder,' " Turner told interviewer David Frost. "And that hurt me more than getting the beating...
Accusing Gomes of filial impiety, murder, adultery, larceny, lying and covetousness, even in jest, doesn't advance Brown's argument; it merely gives him another chance to mock the man. Brown puts himself on such a high and sarcastic pedestal, it seems to me, only to spit on others from it, and that's reprehansible as well as prideful. Brown may be very familiar with St. Paul's Letter to the Romans, but he's forgotten St. Paul's Letter to the Ephesians: "Be ye kind...
...campaign. Though the moral condemnation of homosexual acts is, to be sure, one of the precepts to be found in the dusty pages of the Bible, there are many others equally restrictive, which must also unjustly burden the consciences of many. The bibliolater's irrational prejudices against filial impiety, murder, adultery, larceny, lying, covetousness--all are equally notorious...