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...house, which has been sold, greets Mags like a bare, ruined choir of lamentation. The great vaulting windows are naked, the marble fireplace mantelpiece is shrouded, and the living room floor is scattered with empty packing cartons. In the direst exodus of their lives, Fanny (Marian Seldes) and Gardner Church (Donald Moffat) are retreating, year-round, to their summer cottage on Cape Cod. There, as Fanny puts it, with caustic self-pity, there will be "nothing but the gulls, the oysters...
Mags intends to do their portrait, but the Churches paint it for us first. Gardner has been a renowned poet, the confrere of Yeats and Frost, whom he tellingly quotes. Now he is, in Fanny's words, "very gaga" and "deaf as an adder." He repeats questions that he has asked and answers questions that have not been asked. He guards his latest incoherent manuscript like a toothless lion and then flings it through the air Like a sheaf of errant snowflakes...
...loathing of murder is outweighed only by my abhorrence of the authority that claims the legal right to kill. Gerald James Gardner West Redding, Conn...
...wonderful life, crowded with friends from T.E. Lawrence to Ava Gardner. Seymour-Smith embraces them all in garlands of Graves' verse, notably "The Devil's Advice to Storytellers...
...edited by John Gardner George Mills, Stanley Elkin...