Word: macewan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...MacEwan is one of the rare writers who enjoys both commercial success and critical respect. The opening of the film adaptation of “Atonement,” in theatres today, will likely lure many new readers to the printed version of MacEwan’s romance. But could it possibly satisfy the novel’s existing readers? The film version is directed by Joe Wright, best known for his recent adaptation of “Pride and Prejudice,” which, like this flick, also starred Keira Knightley. As a fan of neither Keira?...
...Deep Midwinter takes place in St. Paul, Minnesota, where Clark grew up and where his grandfather grew up with childhood playmate F. Scott Fitzgerald. "I want to say he's a presence," says Clark, referring to Fitzgerald. Indeed Fitzgerald's people are present in In the Deep Midwinter, the MacEwan family might have been the next generation of Gatsbys. Set in the 1950's, the novel is fraught with the restraint and repression associated with that...
...story traces the lives of Richard and Sarah MacEwan, their divorced daughter Anna and grandson Douglas, and Anna's lover Charles Norden. The book opens as Richard is riding in a train to retrieve the body of his brother James who had just been killed in a hunting accident. "Perhaps the world was a wound..." the novel begins, and the despairing tone grows ever more hopeless from there. Later in the chapter, a grieving Richard sorts through James' belongings and discovers a letter that leads him to believe that his wife Sarah had an affair with James. Unable to confront...
Minnesota in the winter of 1949 is a world where everyone knows his place, and that place is often church, where proprieties are observed and secrets have a charge. Richard and Sarah MacEwan are a sweet-natured, guilt-edged couple held together by custom, affection and a devotion as much to the settled lives they've created over 30 years as to each other. But when his younger brother dies, Richard finds among his unmarried sibling's papers an intimate letter from Sarah and is suddenly propelled beyond the limit of what he knows and what he wants to know...
...neoclassical "capitalists" on the causes of the contemporary problems of inflation and recession. The debate was billed as a battle over the fundamental difference in economic thought: the Marxists vs. the conservatives. Nowhere was it mentioned that half the economic spectrum wasn't even represented. Duesenberry-Eckstein debating Marglin-MacEwan on the alleged shortcomings of capitalism is like Milton Friedman and Bill Buckley debating the Rev. Billy Graham and Brother John Birch on the alleged shortcomings of socialism. Unfortunately such stacked debates are all Harvard can offer with a stacked economics faculty...