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The guess here is that readers will not let The Promise of Rest stand alone. It is a turbulent, cross-grained story that pulls at the imagination, and that pull leads back to the earlier novels. And to an odd perception: though this is a multigenerational chronicle that follows the...
He is supported by a solid, gimmick-free production. The cast and its director, Jonathan Kent, have chosen to play things straight. There are no clashing incongruities of costume or accent, no radical deletions or insertions. Sets are appropriately dark and stark. The pace is brisk, sometimes to the point...
FOR THE SECOND TIME IN HIS LAST two novels, literary magician Mark Helprin, 47, offers the reminiscences of an eccentric, brilliantly cross-grained geezer. In his 1991 novel, A Soldier of the Great War, he portrayed an indomitable hero who was a soldier and lover when young and, despite adversities...
But, as Herbert points out, Seurat's dots are not really dots either. Far from laboring away at a mechanical surface programmed in advance by theories of complementary color, Seurat displayed the most intuitive and mobile sense of the relations between sight and mark. One of the miracles of his...
The giddy escalation in prices is due in part to scarcity, since pre- Revolutionary furniture is as sparse as its spare Yankee lines. The rarest pieces were handcrafted in the port cities of Philadelphia, Newport, Boston, Salem, Mass., and Portsmouth, Va., where rich patrons financed local artisans. These wealthy merchants...