Word: quindlen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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LEAST GRACEFUL EXIT Anna Quindlen, journalist and author, who canceled her scheduled appearance at Villanova University amid protests from pro-life groups
...film, based on a novel by Pulitzer Prize winner Anna Quindlen, zeroes in on a single American family and manages to weave a stunningly intricate emotional epic. Ellen Gulden, played by Renee Zellweger, is a reporter for a Manhattan magazine leading the frenzied life of a normal New Yorker (the recent trends of female heroines working as magazine editors is starting to become both annoying and disturbing). The main narrative unfolds in flashback, as Ellen is being questioned by a district attorney about the possibility that she assisted in her cancer-stricken mother's death. Through her answers...
...True Thing, a patient, unforced adaptation of Anna Quindlen's novel by screenwriter Karen Croner and director Carl Franklin, contains lots of true things about that process. For it immerses us in the awful, vertiginous panic that attends a death in the family--the fierce-wistful attempts to maintain routines in the face of this most exigent of interruptions; the desire to speak certain truths before it's too late and the fear of what consequences such candor might have; the politesse with which you must cover the outrage you feel as the rest of the world glides on about...
...Anna Quindlen's third novel, Black and Blue (Random House; 293 pages; $23), the former New York Times columnist has caught the evil essence. If its moment should prove to be right (a long shot, to be sure), the novel is good enough to become to domestic violence what Uncle Tom's Cabin was to slavery--a morally crystallizing act of propaganda that works because it has the ring of truth...
...Florida highway, have their Thanksgiving dinner at the Chirping Chicken and try to come to terms with their memories of the good Bobby and the bad Bobby--knowing all the while that the relentless Bobby is out there and after them: a heartbreaking game of hide-and-seek. Quindlen understands the dilemmas of these lives, never exaggerates, and captures the evil perfectly because (if this makes sense) she never demonizes...