Word: tremonts
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Norman Conners--Tinker's, 888 Tremont St., Boston...
Norman Conners--Tinker's, 888 Tremont St., Boston...
...Rimers of Eldritch--New Ehrlich Theater, 539 Tremont St., Boston...
...Tremont's long vigil in Los Angeles and the trip back East are told in alternating chapters. Folded together this way, the two stories underscore Tremont's uneasy, mid-life situation. He cleans up for his ailing father and for his sloppy son; he sleeps, on different occasions, in the same room with both. Observing this pattern, he muses on its meaning: "I'm caught up, beached, between two tides, the old one of fathering-husbanding and the new one of aging-dying." occasionally, a third voice interrupts the narrative. It is Dad's mind, rehearsing...
...Birdy (1979), Wharton's acclaimed first novel about an adolescent boy who wants to become a canary and fly. But Dad is a rather more tenuous success than its predecessor. For one thing, it dissipates some of its power in prolixity. When Dad goes through his brief recovery, Tremont notes, within a few pages, "he's like a seventeen-year-old . . . he could have some feelings of being physically thirteen or fourteen years old . . . he has all the ego isolation and drive of a twenty-year-old." These sound like random thoughts, not the shaped statements...