Word: hyperion
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...that Shopgirl (Hyperion; 130 pages; $17.95) isn't also funny. It's full of metaphors that raise wry smiles (a goodbye kiss "so formal it might as well have been wearing a tuxedo") and lots of pert social commentary, especially about a Los Angeles subspecies of sexual predators "whose highest accomplishments are that they were cute in high school." But the author is serious about his glove lady, Mirabelle Buttersfield, and about Ray Porter, the fiftysomething man Mirabelle admits into her solitary life. Once Martin fashioned funny-weird balloon animals; now, at 55, he creates funny-sad, nice...
When the books are alive with the sound of dump trucks, it's likely that JULIE ANDREWS EDWARDS (aided by her daughter Emma Walton Hamilton) is on the job. Dumpy the Dump Truck, illustrated by Tony Walton (Hyperion), the first in a projected series, is written in...prose! Inspired by Andrews' grandson and his love for dump trucks, the story's hero is a neglected dump truck with a stick-to-it attitude who is polished and painted and resumes his rightful place on the farm...
Julius Caesar was perhaps more appropriate for Shakespeare's time, when people knew the tale and the issues involved were issues faced by most Elizabethans. Noting this, the production staff of Julius Caesar, with the help of the Hyperion Shakespeare banner, will radically transform the play to be meaningful to a modern, college age audience. The play is set in modern America, 20 years from now, when everything has fallen apart. Caesar will focus on actors finding their own connection to the words of the play and the formation of actor-audience relationships. The show promises to be experimental...
...Case for Marriage by Linda Waite and Maggie Gallagher (Doubleday) emphasizes the positive, arguing that even rocky marriages nourish children emotionally and practically. The most controversial book, comes from Judith Wallerstein, 78, a therapist and retired lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley. In The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce (Hyperion) she argues that the harm caused by divorce is graver and longer lasting than we suspected. Her work raises a question that some folks felt was settled back in the days of Love, American Style: Should parents stay together for the kids...
...Natural Blonde (Hyperion; 460 pages; $25.95), for all its starstruck reminiscences (lunch with Richard Burton! Sean Connery in the buff!), promised headline-making dish that had publishing circles abuzz last week about the top-secret book. The 77-year-old gossip queen, the woman who broke the story of Donald and Ivana Trump's marital woes, was going to out herself...