Laura Barton
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In the early 1900's, a new invention (and one of the very first uses of the electric motor) was created to address the 'problem' of women's hysteria.
Directors: Laura Barton, Judy Wilder
Stars: Molly Ivins, Annie Sprinkle and Carol Queen
Directors: Laura Barton, Judy Wilder
Stars: Molly Ivins, Annie Sprinkle and Carol Queen
A depressing, claustrophobic but painfully accurate modern day fairytale set in a small northern town. Jeannie's life has settled into a dull but safe routine - her job selling perfume in a department store, and Jimmy, the boy she has known all her life who is soon to become her husband. She has a nagging feeling that she should want more, do more, be more, however, so when she meets Danny at the train station, Jeannie flirts with him and starts to doubt her future with Jimmy.
I think everyone has wondered 'Is this it?' at one point in their lives, and Laura Barton's grim depiction of life in a close community, where people leave school, get married, and have children, just because that's what you do, certainly inspired that selfish doubt in me. For most of the story, I was willing Jeannie to dump Jimmy and run off with the charming Danny, but Barton looks at the issue from both sides - is the grass really greener? - and keeps the readers guessing right until the last page. The characters are also really well drawn and realistic, and the dialogue is both weary and witty at the same time. One of my favourite lines is from Jeannie, after Danny tells her that his widowed grandfather is like a swan. 'You mean your grandad can break a man's arm?' she asks, deadpan. My type of humour.
Laura Barton's novel isn't happy or hopeful, but refreshingly honest and worryingly recognisable, especially for those who hale from a forgotten city in the north of England, like myself.… (mer)
I think everyone has wondered 'Is this it?' at one point in their lives, and Laura Barton's grim depiction of life in a close community, where people leave school, get married, and have children, just because that's what you do, certainly inspired that selfish doubt in me. For most of the story, I was willing Jeannie to dump Jimmy and run off with the charming Danny, but Barton looks at the issue from both sides - is the grass really greener? - and keeps the readers guessing right until the last page. The characters are also really well drawn and realistic, and the dialogue is both weary and witty at the same time. One of my favourite lines is from Jeannie, after Danny tells her that his widowed grandfather is like a swan. 'You mean your grandad can break a man's arm?' she asks, deadpan. My type of humour.
Laura Barton's novel isn't happy or hopeful, but refreshingly honest and worryingly recognisable, especially for those who hale from a forgotten city in the north of England, like myself.… (mer)
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If you have anything that interests or involves you in your life, this book will make you grateful for it, as all the lives in it are tone-on-tone gray.