Word: husband
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Hall's choice of Vanessa Redgrave for the central role, which requires mingling Southern U.S. and Italian accents, is unlikely but inspired. She plays a woman whose immigrant father was, unknown to her, murdered by her husband with the connivance of the town's whole power structure. The aggrieved woman dreams up a poetic revenge: to re-create within her dying husband's general store a semblance of the festive grape arbor where her family sold wine until they made the mistake of selling to blacks...
BREATHING LESSONS by Anne Tyler. The funeral of a friend's husband distracts Maggie and Ira Moran, but not disruptively; this deft novel is a hymn to stable, unassuming married life...
...live thus in the midst of plenty naturally increases the workers' wretchedness. And their condition mirrors their masters'. For the farm's owners also live hellishly in heavenly surroundings. Their home is as handsome as their well-favored lands. But the husband is a womanizer whose wife literally howls her misery over his infidelities (and ultimately takes a just and terrible revenge...
...mind, adultery on his conscience and a song in his heart. A young man walks into an English home to burgle a loveless couple and rape their brain-damaged daughter. An American woman, troubled by fantasies of her lost child, walks out on her philandering oaf of a husband, whom she may have stabbed to death. An aging British novelist pilfers the life of his beautiful niece for the plot of his new book. Another novelist, strapped to a hospital bed with a grotesquely disfiguring skin disease, plots revenge on all those who have loved him not quite enough...
...said that he'd counted the number of swear words and bare bums. But that's partly because television is taken more seriously in England, which means more seriously by the fools as well." One scene -- a flashback of a desperate encounter between the writer's mother and her husband's best friend -- was sexually explicit, even by the liberal standards of British TV. "There was a debate about it at BBC, " Potter says, "but they decided to let it go uncut. And in fact the consequences of that particular adultery were illness and death and great misery...