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...American hopes to prove there is a down-scale market for something less serious and more entertaining. Predicts Dorris: "We're going to produce a paper that is a pleasure to read, not a chore." Adds Editor Donald Forst: "The new Herald American is going to be a reader's paper, with one overriding goal: to give people something they'll want to read...
...Barthes and "the egregious McLuhan." His scenic route through the Dorset flora and fauna includes side trips into the thickets of political and social theory. He announces his presence at every plot turn-probing his characters' thoughts on one page, shrugging genially that he's no mind reader on the next. And finally, this most dextrous of card sharks trumps his story. He provides three contradictory endings to his tale: in the first, Charles marries his fiancée, in the second Charles and Sarah are blissfully reconciled, in the third they part, never to see each other...
...just this aromatic blending of Victorian and modern sensibilities that made reading the novel such an exhilarating experience. The reader became a dolphin, swimming through the period story, then leaping up for 20th century air. In fiction, the narrator can achieve this feat simply by changing tenses: "They did this. I say that." But film lives in the eternal present; everything that happens happens right now. To be faithful to the structure of The French Lieutenant's Woman would run the risk of dislocating the moviegoer-right out of the theater...
...modern Anna might. Charles is hitting his emotional keys too hard: he sputters and foams out of control. There is not even a mention of their child, no real explanation for Sarah's disappearance. The moment when the lovers finally embrace-the climax awaited by every reader of the novel, anticipated by every new viewer of the film-seems ruinously flat...
...America's young novelists." Now, with the arrival of Irving's eagerly awaited new novel, The Hotel New Hampshire, Sheppard's assessment rings more true than ever. "Every once in a while there's a writer of real quality who also appeals to the popular reader," says Sheppard. "Irving is one." No newcomer to the risky but rewarding task of spotting literary talent, Sheppard worked as an editor and reviewer for the book section of the now defunct New York Herald Tribune before joining TIME as a book reviewer in 1967. His cover story this week...