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...lasting strength of families is not in tradition, it is in the capacity for change. Few novelists in years have written as well about the ferocious fragility of family love and family life as John Irving. The World According to Garp has a protagonist???no, a hero?who breaks conventional roles as if they were a halfhearted hammer lock, who not only tends the kids while his wife works and keeps the house in order, but actually takes joy in his tasks. Pride. Fulfillment. The book was more than a smash. It was a true literary phenomenon, and there...
...acclaimed by critics, from which it is taken. It will also provide, for those who saw the play last year, illustration of the differences between theatrical and cinema technique when each is properly handled. On the stage The Criminal Code was a parable. The misfortunes heaped on the protagonist???a boy who learns in prison how to be a criminal? were fashioned to provide a lesson. As a cinema, the realism of scenes in the prison itself?the cells, yard, jute-mill, dungeons ?pours life into the theatrical skeleton. Even the romance between Robert Graham and the warden...
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