Word: protagonists
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Daniel Williams, the young protagonist of Nick Laird’s “Utterly Monkey,” is bored with his life. Suffice it to say, the feeling for the reader is mutual...
...School, she went forth into the real world to be an attorney. Oh, how the years go by and things change. Now, Malcolm is a freelance journalist and the author of “Silent Lies,” a novel that follows the far-flung exploits of a protagonist burdened by dark secrets. She recently spoke over the telephone with The Crimson...
...would expect an opera whose protagonist is named Sister Blanche of the Agony of Christ to be excessively melodramatic. But the Dunster House Opera (DHO) production of Francis Poulenc’s 1957 modern classic, “Dialogues of the Carmelites” is anything but excessive...
...plot concerns a convent of French nuns on the eve of the Reign of Terror of the French Revolution. The protagonist, Blanche de la Force (Kathy D. Gerlach ’07), struggles with her beliefs, her fellow sisters, her martyrdom, and the impending fate that awaits her and the rest of the Carmelites, as they are sentenced to death in the name of the Republic...
Perkins: I got an invitation to try out for a sex frolic thing, like [protagonist] Steven Hudson, who meets these young girls and in the last week he marries one of them on national TV. It’s pretty ridiculous. If I wanted to marry a 20 something girl, there are easier ways of doing that. I showed [the letter] to my friends, and everyone laughed. I thought, I can make a humorous novel of this...