But you might not want to.” And while the same lesson can be taken from Tinderbox, Gornick also presents us with the hope of redemption Of Franzen’s work Entertainment Weekly wrote, his “domestic drama teaches that, yes, you can go home again. I clung to every page of Tinderbox…Gornick has translated the very real and tender chaos of family into a novel that’s expertly constructed and engaging. –Christina Baker Kline, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train Lisa Gornick mines her characters’ hidden histories and ignites our interest from page one. Tinderbox is a brilliant gem of a novel: a page-turner that reminds us that, while we are never without the weight of our past, we also choose how we carry it. –Joan Silber, winner of the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and the 2018 Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction An extraordinary book, written for adults I loved this novel-it is deeply intelligent and shot through with suspense The light that it shines on family life-from lethal traumas to daily love to misguided intentions-has a rare sort of rightness. It’s a searingly perceptive, deeply honest novel about families and secrets, and power, and love. Tinderbox spins a suspenseful mystery of hidden traumas.
In the rich tradition of Lionel Shriver, Jane Hamilton, and Anne Tyler, the psychoanalyst and novelist Lisa Gornick tells us a story about the tragedy of good intentions. As events spiral out of Myra’s control, she learns that even a family as close-knit as her own can have plenty to hide. Their relationship slowly and inexorably becomes too close, too dependent, and, ultimately, terrifyingly destructive. Then, one afternoon, she settles into Myra’s patient chair and begins to expose the secrets of her past. She spits in her hands to ward off evil spirits. She racks the household with screams from a night terror. Her phobia-addled son has just moved back in with his wife and child, and the new nanny, Eva, seems like a perfect addition: she cleans like a demon and irons like a dream, and she forms an immediate bond with Myra’s grandson.īut as Eva, a Peruvian immigrant, reveals more of herself, what seemed a felicitous arrangement turns ominous. A quick study and an excellent judge of character, she thinks she knows what she’s getting when she hires a nanny-it’s her job, after all, to analyze people.
HBO’s audacity built the viewing culture we have today and permanently transformed the television landscape.Myra is a Manhattan psychotherapist.
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We take their big-budget, “prestige” TV for granted now, but their success was far from assured at the outset. HBO gave us violent scenes with blood and guts, shows like Tales from the Crypt that were actually scary, rom-coms with sex instead of suggestion. They created different, better content - or at least they convinced viewers that different was better. But who would pay for something that had always been free? Home Box Office dared to ask that question in 1972, opening the doors for other pay-channels and ultimately the streaming platforms that are now the norm. Since televisions entered Americans’ living rooms, the question of whether programming should be “free” - paid for with advertising - has loomed, to the extent that some broadcasters, lobbyists, and fearmongers warned someone would come along and disrupt their Madison Avenue-championed business model. James Andrew Miller collects insider accounts of the humble beginnings, devastating missteps, controversial business decisions, and, of course, backstage drama and celebrity gossip from the set. The exclusive story of HBO’s key creators, executives, actors, and directors gives listeners an unprecedented peek behind the curtain at the founding and triumph of the first “pay-channel” that brought America The Sopranos, Sex and the City, The Wire, Succession, and countless groundbreaking, culture-shifting shows. From the New York Times best-selling author of Those Guys Have All the Fun comes Tinderbox, the unvarnished, comprehensive, and astonishing history of HBO, told for the first time through the disruptors who led its epic rise to prestige and changed the way we watch television forever.
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