Word: novella
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...work of longer fiction by comic-actor-writer Steve Martin, tells the story of Mirabelle Buttersfield, a shy young woman working behind a department-store glove counter, and the men in her life, especially Ray Porter, a wealthy entrepreneur in his 50s. TIME?s Richard Corliss talked with the novella-ist. Here are excerpts...
...TIME: "Shopgirl" is subtitled "A Novella." That?s a word that suggests both diminutive and old-fashioned...
...TIME: Okay, I?ll put it this way. I can imagine "Steve Martin" writing this sweet, sad novella, but I couldn?t imagine him reading it on the audiocassette version...
...dreary Thanksgiving week, his long-lost father sends him a plane ticket to visit him in Michigan. During the tragicomic, disastrous get-together, Jimmy meets his adopted black sister Amy and his ancient grandfather (also named Jimmy), whose own 1890s Chicago childhood unfolds in a beautiful and heartbreaking novella-within-a-novel in Jimmy Corrigan...
...Ware as a meticulous artist who reshapes older comic art into a new and expressive form. Like any good Postmodernist, he borrows from the past--the Superman bits, 19th century ads, a touch of Little Nemo and Krazy Kat. But Ware's appropriations all serve his story. The 1890s novella uses sepia tones to depict senior Jimmy's claustrophobic home life; the '50s comics motifs perfectly capture junior Jimmy's state of arrested childhood...