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...right to embitter my life," and his mother's health "will be destroyed if my son sullies it with his foul conduct." And his mother? At one point Dali exhibited an image of the Sacred Heart across which he had written SOMETIMES I SPIT ON THE PORTRAIT OF MY MOTHER...
...More than a look at Vido's life alone, Family Letters provides a vivid portrait of Vido's father, a journalist who never fulfills his dream to be a writer, and the unique bond between father and son. Seeing each other as peers and fellow writers in spite of their biological relationship, Vido and Seepersad alternatively offer each other encouragement, criticism and advice in a way that forms a striking contrast to Vido's more candid exchanges with his older sister Kamla, or his oft-exasperated advice to his younger sister Sati...
...Between such analyses, the book provides a compelling portrait of a young Naipaul driven by a tremendous desire to succeed, who nevertheless vacillates between prideful confidence and fear of the future. He rejects financial help from his family but must turn to them after a reckless spending spree in Spain; he works himself so hard that he is constantly ill and even suffers a nervous breakdown; he becomes depressed following the rejection of his first book by the publishers. These details remind us beyond doubt that there is a fallible human being who exists behind the mystique of the writer...
...information technology; how many times have we heard the complaint that letter-writing has become a lost art? This book is a testament to the intimacy that a two-line e-mail could never replicate. For devotees of Naipaul's work, Family Letters provides a fascinating portrait of an artist as a young man that could not be captured in any other...
...became the wife of the most famous man on the planet. After winning performances in Flirting and Dead Calm, Nicole tried to flex her acting muscles opposite her new husband (Far and Away, Days of Thunder) but found herself in an endless string of flops (My Life, Malice, Portrait of a Lady, etc.). And so she took action--my mother calls it "Plan B," I call it "Operation Take My Clothes Off and See If I'm a Better Actress When I'm Naked." Nicole Kidman has become the new Demi Moore--naked just for the hell of it. Eyes...