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...FRIEND DESCRIBED Smooth Talk as the story of a 15-year-old girl in the first flush of her sexuality, which seemed like a compelling enough reason to see it--having been there myself. The film also happens to be based on a Joyce Carol Oates novella, another point to recommend it; and, in spite of its low $1 million budget, Smooth Talk managed to garner the Grand Prize at the U.S. Film Festival...
...books have been optioned over the years by moviemakers, but none of Saul Bellow's works have ever made it to the screen. The first exception will be Seize the Day. Bellow's tragicomic 1956 novella about the decline and foibles of a Manhattan salesman is now being made into a TV movie for PBS in New York City. The film, being produced by former Princeton students of Bellow's, has delighted the author, and last week he visited the set to make a cameo appearance walking down a hotel corridor past his hapless protagonist, Tommy Wilhelm, played by Robin...
Zuckerman Bound offers the convenience of all three novels in one volume and something else besides. Roth has added a novella-length epilogue to Nathan's saga called The Prague Orgy. For reasons he does not fully understand, a ( rejuvenated Zuckerman finds himself in Czechoslovakia, trying to obtain a manuscript of Yiddish stories, written by someone both unknown and deceased, to take back with him to the U.S. The writers and artists he meets in Prague have all been silenced and repressed by the government. Sex is their outlet and anodyne. Zuckerman wants to discuss literature; his hosts want...
...ever seems calculated or artificial. The Mist begins: "This is what happened. On the night that the worst heat wave in northern New England history finally broke--the night of July 19--the entire western Maine region was lashed with the most vicious thunderstorms I have ever seen." The novella-length story is an exercise in escalating gruesomeness, and the urgency and awkwardness of the narrative lend credence to the preposterous. So does the setting, a supermarket where a random bunch of shoppers have been trapped by what may be the end of the world. Familiar brand names anchor...
...This novella dates from what is probably the most impressive stretch of Greene's long career: the years between Brighton Rock (1938) and The Third Man (1950), during which he also produced such novels as The Power and the Glory (1940) and The Heart of the Matter (1948). The Tenth Man is too spare to rank as a full partner in such company, but it springs from the same haunting and entertainingly obsessed imagination...