Word: orchards
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...Noises Off, a slapstick send-up of British sex comedy, and Benefactors, a regretful recollection of the relations between two young professional couples. Wild Honey marries the wry and the rowdy strains in Frayn's writing and at the same time prefigures Chekhov's later plays, notably The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya and The Seagull. The joys this collaboration offers, however, are as much visceral as literary. In chronicling the tomfoolery of a village intellectual, half charmer, half malcontent, Wild Honey provides nonstop bawdy laughter followed by a silencing leap into the abyss...
...ghetto / streets. With her felt-tip pens and knowledgeable left hand, Bidemmi gives those scenes an optimistic glow, heightened by a metaphor: cherry pits. Everyone in the neighborhood, including a pet parrot, eats cherries. The seeds are scattered in the hope that one day there will be a whole orchard on Bidemmi's block, with harvest enough, says the last rainbow illustration, to feed everyone...
...lives and works of Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, subjects of other Henri Troyat biographies, Chekhov's belong to the 20th century, an age of fretful spirits and melancholy skepticism. These impulses guide his hundreds of stories, his theatrical masterpieces (The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard) and especially his letters. "You ask me what life is," he wrote his wife shortly before dying of tuberculosis in 1904. "That's like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there's nothing more to know...
...headed in the general direction of West Brattleboro and, miraculously, found the orchard...
...snag the best apples. She picked them off the ground. She tossed them at the two of us who weren't quite as interested in apples as she. But we caught them and added them to the bulging paper sack we had picked up from the owner of the orchard...