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Williams, an actor who has played more than his fair share of sentimental heroes, gives a reserved, surprisingly creepy performance as the hack novelist turned murderer. Says Williams: "Is it stunt casting? Maybe, but it puts people off guard, and Chris Nolan has this amazing sense, visually and dramatically, of always keeping the audience off guard...
...balance had been lost, both in the Bombay of Indira Gandhi's 1975 Emergency and in Mistry's fearsome vision of the city where he was born and raised. When a novelist of his caliber despairs at human cruelty, the results are often annihilating...
...Prize last year for "Empire Falls." Kirkus and PW swoon, giving the book starred reviews. Says Kirkus, "Readers who loved such a roomy, generously plotted, and detailed novel as the Pulitzer-winning 'Empire Falls' won't be able to resist this first collection of seven stories by the Maine novelist...a wonderful distillation of Russo's gifts for crystal-clear narration, subtle character portrayal, and irrepressible humor... There may be more important writers around, but none is more likable, or more dependably entertaining and rewarding, than Russo." PW agrees. "Russo's sterling reputation is largely due to his astounding ability...
...predicament in the first person, circling it doggedly, chattily, sometimes with a deliciously malicious wit, taking us inside her domestic routines, her comfortable, functional marriage, her kaffeeklatsch, her struggles with her own new book. (Along with everything else, Unless is rich with practical advice for the would-be novelist.) Shields swings easily from comedy to tragedy and back again--she says she doesn't really believe in the distinction anyway--pausing in between for a disquisition on the biology of the trilobite (a prehistoric creepy-crawly), an expert demolition of literary journalists (no offense taken) and an angry letter...
...question about it: nasty, nerdy Walter Finch (Robin Williams) did it. The paperback crime novelist killed the high school girl he was "mentoring." There are no other plausible suspects; and besides, Finch is sly--but not shy--with his confessional hints...