Word: novels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Deliverance. James Dickey's powerful novel has been faithfully translated to the screen by director John Boorman in this very disturbing film. Four good ole boys canoe down a remote country river and find survival in the wilderness to be more than they can handle. As the self-confident superjock who leads the expedition, Burt Reynolds actually gets to act--something he hasn't done since. Jon Voight and Ned Beatty are also excellent. (The latter's "squeal like a pig" scene is a memorably gruesome portrayal of humiliation.) The film has a great deal of violence, and a long...
...reading period atmosphere permeates--and spoils--Cambridge for you, then head for Copley Square and the Newbury Street Theater's production of Daughter of Earth. The play is a biographical drama of the life of Agnes Smedley, based on a novel of hers. In this adaptation, Smedley--who wrote several books on the development of Communist China, derived from her experiences as a journalist--develops from frontier child to waitress to Berkeley student to activist and newspaperwoman, analyzing first Germany and then China. Deeply committed to the Communist Revolution, she became the target of anti-Red feeling in her native...
...known its astringent delights wonders more or less seriously whether he has denied himself one of life's meaningful experiences. Not splitting is like not going to Europe. A writer, in particular, finds divorce invaluable, as Richard Schickel proves in this literate and agreeably romantic first novel about a man and a woman who have shucked their first spouses...
...documentaries, and cinema reviewer for TIME, is 45 and a veteran of one marriage and one divorce. Yet he writes with the freshness and emotional intensity of a 20-year-old memorializing his first love affair. His book is considerably more resonant than the customary first-love novel, however, perhaps because authors and characters in their 40s have deepened and mellowed, and those in their 20s are too raw to be consistently interesting...
...sensible man would have paused with, perhaps found whatever it was he thought he was looking for," writes Schickel of Koerner's women friends. That second clause needs to be drained, refloated and fitted out with new prepositions. But the early lapses are not repeated, and the novel in sum is intelligent, sentimental writing for the middle-aged and cynical, who need it more than most...