Word: ghosted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Susan liked heaven so much that Psychologist-Producer James Enneis feared she might develop suicidal ideas, so he had the ghost father tell Susan that she could find a heaven on earth...
...lights suggesting harsh reality, 19-year-old Susan thrashes about in a temper tantrum. She once used these tantrums to win attention from her widowed mother or her uncle. Now, as the stage lighting turns slowly to green, another inmate enters in the role of her father's ghost. The two decide to go away together, and the lights are blacked out to indicate the passage of time...
...GHOST AT NOON (247 pp.)-Alberto Moravia-Farrar, Straus...
Poor, tortured Riccardo is the Hamlet-like hero-victim of Italian Novelist Alberto (Conjugal Love) Moravia's latest novel, A Ghost at Noon. To give his lovely but simple wife the comfortable life she wants, Riccardo has put aside his ambition to become a dramatist and taken on a movie job. He has even bought a car and is in debt. But his first script is a success, Producer Battista has given him a new and more important one to do, and the drab days in a furnished room in Rome seem well behind. It is typical of Author...
...Ghost at Noon is far from being Moravia's best book. It is all too spelled-out, and Riccardo is so uninteresting that Emilia's contempt is inevitable. A fine short-story writer, Moravia could have improved A Ghost vastly by scrapping half of it. But even as it stands, this is a penetrating look at embattled personalities, a marital case history that the great Stendhal would have savored with pleasure...