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...December, part of Yates' disturbing world found its way to the big screen, with the release of a film version of his first novel, Revolutionary Road, pairing Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in their first cinematic get-together since Titanic. The novel chronicles the painful disintegration of the marriage of Frank and April Wheeler, a seemingly model couple in vapid 1950s suburbia. The film, which faithfully captures that pain, promptly sank at the box office - grossing just $21 million so far - despite the fact that Winslet won a Golden Globe as Best Actress for her tortured role. (See pictures...
...novel has caught fire. More than a million paperback copies of Revolutionary Road, which made little commercial ripple when it came out in 1961 (though it was nominated for a National Book Award), are now in print, and the Vintage paperback has been on the New York Times best seller list for 11 weeks. (See the All-TIME 100 Best Novels, including Revolutionary Road...
...five states. However, highlights from the trip would extend well beyond basketball games and the song “Mrs. Officer.”Our first stop was the sprawling campus of Cornell in Ithaca, New York.Consider driving to Cornell if you can picture yourself in a Steven King novel, or alternatively, are in the market to buy a mobile home. Some towns to look into include the Village of Greene and the Town of Triangle. A little known fact: the Finger Lakes were originally settled by representatives from Playskool. Friday the 13th saw a substantial loss for the Crimson...
...writer has swallowed all of Singapore, from its stately colonial bungalows to its once opium-infested slums, with the verve and wit of the late J.G. Farrell, whose 1978 saga The Singapore Grip remains the great Singapore novel. From its opening passages Farrell signals the vastness of his literary ambition - and then brilliantly brings it off in the ensuing 500-odd pages. "When you staggered outside into the sweltering night," he writes of Singapore, "you would have been able to inhale that incomparable smell of incense, of warm skin, of meat cooking in coconut oil, of money and frangipani...
...Farrell's pungent aroma still fleetingly hovers over today's city, once you escape its air-conditioned malls, but it was more powerful in the late 1930s, when the novel is set. The story sprawls around the family of Walter Blackett, a wealthy British businessman who is clinging, with increasingly comic desperation, to the old colonial order as his beloved city lurches toward World War II. Around the bungalows of Tanglin his tempestuous daughter is conducting love affairs with variously unsuitable men, his son is proving too unreliable to inherit the family firm Blackett & Webb, and his business partner, once...