Word: harrisons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...otter in the Gulf of Alaska. This is a man who has been the biggest draw in movie theaters for more than 20 years. How big? The 21 movies he has made for Warner Bros. since 1971 have had box-office sales of $1.2 billion worldwide. (Harrison Ford and Arnold Schwarzenegger may one day be contenders.) The videotape sales of his movies have brought in an additional $139 million, and the sound tracks another $25 million or so. Then there are the rights fees that television networks pay every time they broadcast an Eastwood classic like Dirty Harry...
AUTHOR: KATHRYN HARRISON...
...plot is dreary and predictable in its basics: neurasthenic young woman falls apart. That is, in fact, what happens; Ann Rogers crumbles and collapses. Why does this matter? Why does author Harrison's novel (her second, after the much praised Thicker Than Water) grab the reader by the throat? Is it the hook of that voyeuristic first scene in the taxi? Are we waiting for something like that striptease to happen again...
...quick summary, this is melodrama. As the novel winds and backtracks, it is a convincing psychological unraveling. A question, after this strong second book, is whether Harrison can manage this sort of powerful hold on the reader while being somewhat less gaudy in her use of stage effects...
...Watson 9-21 2-4 20, Ames 1-2 1-2 3, Beaudry 0-1 0-0 0, Caracciolo 0-3 0-2 0, Farley 11-22 6-10 28, LaMacchia 0-1 0-0 0, Hunnewell 0-3 2-2 2, Onze 1-2 0-0 3, Harrison 5-15 2-7 12, Henriksen 0-0 0-2 0, Spunaugle 1-4 0-0 0. Totals...