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...smile, "as much as I've loved staying in the 19th century, maybe it would be interesting to have a change." Stark as the differences are, the acute sense of period and themes of lesbian love and relationships unfolding that distinguished Waters' earlier work get full play in this vivid, compassionate re-creation of 1940s London, which starts postwar and reverses into the Blitz. Her characters seem to be taking life one day at a time. Jealousy-riddled Helen and flighty Julia are lovers - but for how long? Helen's ex, Kay, after being fully incorporated into the war effort...
...side along a man-made course of bumps, turns and jumps. Purists might tut-tut, but the close-cutting action should attract a fresh breed of fans who prefer wild moves and wipeouts to precision execution. However you like your Games, it all starts to crystallize into a vivid storyline as the wind whips around the Sacra di San Michele, where our guide, Cerutti, is pointing up toward the floor of the chapel. The entire church structure, he explains, was built into a crater of the rock by master builders in medieval times. "They wanted to defy the laws...
...attribute that to luck? No, I attribute it to coming from a strong place that breeds strong characters, and strong characters are what major actors and actresses want to play. They want to play somebody vivid...
...there's no corresponding willingness on the part of readers to give up the quirky characters and vivid details and sexy twists and pleasing, rounded endings they're used to in fiction. To get those effects in nonfiction, writers sometimes cut corners--the factual kind. "If you want to have something that can be sold as based on a true story," Coffey says, "you're going to run into guys like James Frey who are embellishing with techniques that are considered a gift in fiction writing but apparently a sin in a memoir...
...opulent 137-year-old venue, which is crammed to the rafters with staff in 19th-century livery and guests in white tie or lavish gowns. Then there's the matchless beauty of the polonaise, the famous opening dance performed by handpicked debutantes, pictured here. Their grand entrance is as vivid a hallucination of old Europe as you'll ever experience?and something that even the most curmudgeonly traditionalist cannot fault...