Word: mother
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...takes him from Dugton, Alabamaa to academic renown and personal tragedy back to Dugton again--by summoning up a series of scenes from his past. The novel, like his entire life, represents an attempt to come to terms with his roots, to discover in the sturdy consistency of his mother and the recklessness of his drunkard father a source of self-knowledge and self-mastery...
Beginning with the half-comic death of his father, in the act of urinating, and ending with his mother's death almost half a century later, Jed milks his memory for fragments of meaning. The narrative proceeds chronologically, skimming rapidly over Jed's academic career, slowing down to capture the degeneration of his love affair, and focusing finally and most persistently on his moments of existential angst. Jed's own formlessness is thrown into relief by his encounters with a cluster of well-drawn minor figures, from the cheerfully mundane Cudworths, whose very name suggests the unquestioning content of cattle...
...Mother Kusters Goes To Heaven. At the Orson Welles Three, daily...
...dirty hand stirs through it. "Know what that is?" the voice asks. "Them;s brains. Shit. That's the way with a dirty scab. Shoot you when you're not even looking. Shit." Kopple was asked to film Jones' funeral, and it's here in horrible detail, with Jones' mother carried away moaning "Oh Death...
...border country of life on the physical edge of town becomes the border of accepted society which contributes in turn to the border of love and hate between lonely and alcoholic mother and her daughters in The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man in the Moon Marigolds. A girl who wins a big science prize at school wants her mother to come to the award ceremony but the mother who, with her strange ways has never worked for the acceptance of the community, is ashamed. And so, in the Winthrop House production, the fierce battle for independence and pride against...