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A Good Hard Look
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Ann Napolitano
JudyB
, August 04, 2012
A wealthy New Yorker, his Georgia wife, and the writer Flannery O’Connor (along with her obnoxious peacocks and her mother). Early 1960s. Milledgeville, Georgia, O’Connor’s hometown. O’Connor presents as a quirky character out of one of her own stories in this novel of vague discontents, everyone looking for something or someone, a place, a life, and their choices and deceptions that lead to tragedy and ultimately the possibility of redemption...for some of them. Believable, well developed, sympathetic characters, and just enough of Southern Gothic tradition to make it all work. Will make you want to go back to O’Connor’s stories and essays.
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Either You're in or You're in the Way: Two Brothers, Twelve Months, and One Filmmaking Hell-Ride to Keep a Promise to Their Father
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Logan Miller and Noah Miller
JudyB
, September 11, 2011
The Miller brothers recount their adventures and misadventures as they try to get the story of their father’s life from screenplay to screen. Honest about their naivete and hubris or, as they put it, ignorance and arrogance, they set out to make a film without experience, money, contacts...with nothing but their passion, their promise to their father, and their own intelligence and creativity. Their father’s unfulfilled life, marked by homelessness and alcoholism--and love for his sons--inspired in his twins love and loyalty, and a fierce need to fulfill their promise to him to make the movie about his life, including his wish to have Ed Harris (or someone else “good-looking”) play his part. The book is lively, engaging, and honest, if vague on the details of how they managed to finance the project. It's a good read with near disasters, strokes of luck, good friends, and pros who read their script and gambled on these novices: cameramen, soundmen, actors--especially Ed Harris, who granted them an audience, read the script, and signed on.
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Let The Great World Spin
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Colum McCann
JudyB
, January 03, 2011
It's all here—time, place, complicated & believable characters, chance & faith, heartbreak & despair, love & healing, beautiful language. This book stays with me.
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