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...clear he was used to interacting with people who don’t know what in the world to say to him. According to the Boston Globe, this man had, upon hearing of his son??s death, flown into a blind rage and set fire to himself and the truck of the Marines who had brought the bad news...
...This would not be a novel at all if the devil were not at the center of it,” he said. “The Castle in the Forest” is the first work released by Mailer since “The Gospel According to the Son?? in 1997. There has been a lot of speculation about the reason for the long wait, but Mailer said it was merely the voluminous research, not age, and he spoke at length about such research. For exsample, a significant portion of Mailer’s speech focused...
...place or vivid evocation of experience, and Munro’s attempts to imaginatively create an inner life for her characters seem flat. There is mention of a brother’s friendship with a rich man’s ailing young daughter aboard the ship, and of a son??s bitter grief over his father’s death, but partly because there are so many characters—brothers, sisters, cousins, in-laws—none of these imagined glimpses into their lives go anywhere or feel very satisfying. Things take a turn for the better?...
...describing New York parents, Gopnik does not fail to leave out the “yuppie” factor. He details the production of a “Peter Pan” play put on at his seven-year-old son??s private school, where an ad hoc committee is formed with the goal of figuring out a way for the children to fly on stage. The various suggestions, which include step ladders (“That won’t give the illusion of flight. That’ll give the illusion of their being housepainters...
...screws Lindsay-Abaire adds to the play. He practically hands Carr one of the show’s most brilliantly twisted scenes (which he is ballsy enough to place just after the curtain opens), in which Izzy tells Becca the she is pregnant even as the latter folds her son??s old clothes for Goodwill. But Carr manages to fumble, not at all emphasizing the cruelty in the exchange, and the audience hardly realizes the scene’s maudlin undercurrent before it ends. While Anderman’s performance is more skilled than Carr?...