Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER. Alan Arkin's magnificent performance as the mute in this Hollywood adaptation of Carson McCullers' novel is the only real glimmer of poetry in an otherwise determinedly prosaic film...
...events. Bowen tells the story in a series of sharp, enclosed scenes with irony, dry humor and a terse, elliptical style. She sets pragmatists against emotionalists, opportunists against those who answer only to the hungers of the heart. Like Portia Quayne, the heroine of Bowen's best-known novel. Death of the Heart, Eva leads a life totally unlit by love. She attracts people, but when they reach out for her, they grope in darkness...
...little left to clothe the "well-kept figure of an adult woman still loved by a man." This becoming feminine pique over fit-and much other comment on the trying 60s-has been incorporated into a slender futurist fantasy. The publisher, somewhat optimistically, asserts that it is a novel. Alas, the lady has tried to cram a statuesque symposium on life, death and manners into a minisheath of story...
...heroine cannot decide what novçelist's nightmare she has stumbled upon. Confronting a homicidal maniac, she says: "I was drifting between James M. Cain and Kathleen Norris." Unfortunately, that is also the drift of Sagan's seventh novel, which is a little more weird than her usual blend of native wit and updated Colette. The characters and setting are American, but Dorothy Seymour, Hollywood scriptwriter, may as well be one of Sagan's Parisian cocottes: she wears St. Laurent copies, vacations on the Riviera, suffers liver attacks and has a quintessentially Gallic attitude toward love...
...author, a former journalist, is said to have been "a full-time member of the circle she re-creates so vividly," but her novel reads as if it had been re searched in back numbers of Modern Romances. All the women's-fiction cliches are present: men are "movie-hero tall and handsome"; there is nearly as much obstetrics as sex; crises arise from the misbehavior of children and the absence of husbands at birthday parties. Teddy White would never recognize the politics, although anybody over 13 should have no trouble recognizing the personnel...