Yahoo Web Search

  1. The Long Silence

    The Long Silence

    1993 · Drama · 1h 35m

Search results

  1. Rating

  1. The Long Silence. Written by Gerard O’Donovan. Review by Ellen Keith. This is my kind of mystery. Set in Hollywood in 1922, it begins with “As soon as he wrestled Swann’s lifeless form into the roadster…”. No, protagonist Tom Collins isn’t a murderer. He’s a fixer for famous producer Mack Sennett, and Swann, one of Sennett’s ...

  2. Goodreads Blurb. Jaya's life comes apart at the seams when her husband is asked to leave his job while allegations of business malpractice against him are investigated. Her familiar existence disrupted, her husband's reputation in question and their future as a family in jeopardy, Jaya, a failed writer, is haunted by memories of the past.

  3. Jan 1, 1990 · That Long Silence is the story of Jaya, a housewife and mother to two teenaged children and is a writer in her free time. Jaya’s life resembles any typical Indian housewife, compromising for family needs, putting family before oneself, suffering silently, until she gets a jolt when her husband is fired from his work with charges of fraud.

    • (752)
    • Paperback
  4. The definitive site for Reviews, Trailers, Showtimes, and Tickets Rotten Tomatoes, home of the Tomatometer, is the most trusted measurement of quality for Movies & TV. Signed in

  5. That Long Silence is a delineation of memory and the relief the protagonist Jaya finally achieves. Her husband Mohan, an engineer, is indicted for corruption in a business transaction. Jaya and Mohan retreat to a flat at Dadar in Mumbai. Jaya reviews her life. The novel portrays the inner debate in the mind of Jaya besides her search for ...

  6. Jun 6, 2021 · That Long Silence, then traces Jaya’s passage through a plethora of self-doubts, fears, guilt, smothered anger and silence towards articulation and affirmation.Suman Ahuja, while reviewing the novel in the Times of India, observes that Jaya “caught in an emotional eddy, endeavours to come to terms with her protean roles, while trying, albeit in vain, to rediscover her true sell, which is ...

  7. People also ask

  8. O'Donovan (Dublin Dead, 2012, etc.) rolls out a brand-new sleuth just in time to toss him into a fictionalization of the second-hottest real-life murder case of Jazz Age Hollywood.

  1. People also search for