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Possessing an eye for the paradox of incongruity, Boyle places some well known figures from both literature and real life into out-of-context situations in his stories ("Robert Jordan in Nicaragua," "I Dated Jane Austen," "Hard Sell"). Yet somehow out of a situation which initially seems as gimmicky as Dennis Rodman comes dazzling observations on life. In "I Dated Jane Austen", the fraility of dating is shown in a stunning expose of the narrator's exploits with the famous 19th century author. The Ayatollah Khomeini is the subject of an image makeover in "Hard Sell...
...outpatient basis. Chances are good you're going to be a bit groggy when you get home and in no condition to figure out what to do. "You should start a list of questions the minute you find out you need surgery and keep refining that list," advises Jane Rothrock, professor of perioperative nursing at Delaware County Community College in Media, Pa. "What can you eat afterward, and how soon? How much can you lift, in terms of pounds? How should you care for the incision? When can you have sex again...
...great examples of human folly. But to say that Bainbridge--who is perhaps one of the best living novelists Americans don't know much about, and whose work, including this latest novel, has been shortlisted five times for the prestigious Booker Prize--writes historical fiction is like saying that Jane Austen wrote domestic comedies. These three novels, each around a mere 200 pages, are epics under a microscope, reducing the sweep of history to the random collisions of its human players...
Little Voice (Jane Horrocks), a withdrawn young woman who is constantly hectored by her blowsy mom (Brenda Blethyn) and courted by a drab-as-drywall repairman (Ewan McGregor), lives only for the pop standards her dear dead dad loved. Turns out she has an eerie gift for mimicking Judy Garland, Marilyn Monroe and other ghosts of chanteuses past. So a local talent scout (Michael Caine) thrusts the kid onstage for her, and the film's, moment of magic. Horrocks' metamorphosis from starling to star is worth cherishing. But stay around for Caine's bilious rendition of Roy Orbison...
...dubious importance to the plot and tells the reader too much about them. This is Ray ostensibly talking about Jill Thompson, one of his eighth grade teachers and a character which could be eliminated with no harm to the book: "She used to play cribbage with us kids...[including] Jane Ellwey...Jane got killed in a car crash after the homecoming game my junior year...Lots of people died in cars out on those back roads over the years. I generally try to be real careful, especially at night...