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  1. Feb 5, 1993 · Sommersby's wife is the key to his reinstatement. At first Laurel can't believe that he is the husband who gambled, swore and brawled, and who ignored her ever after she became pregnant. The boor ...

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  2. A winning and soul-stirring exploration of the spiritual meaning of one man's sacrificial death. Full Review | Jul 12, 2003. Vincent Canby New York Times. TOP CRITIC. Though there is a near ...

  3. Feb 21, 1993 · Oddly, the current film that best captures the spirit of Martin Guerre is "Olivier, Olivier," inspired by a newspaper account of a French boy who disappeared. When an adolescent returned several ...

  4. Feb 5, 1993 · "Sommersby" is a square peg pounded into a round hole - or, more exactly, a medieval European story that has been unsuccessfully updated to the period of the American Civil War. The plot hinges on a deception that was just barely believable when set at the time of the Hundred Years' War, where it could play off the superstition that a man might be transformed by war. In its present version is ...

  5. Book Review. At 17, She Fell in Love With a 47-Year-Old. Now She Questions the Story. Jill Ciment’s 1996 memoir “Half a Life” described her teenage affair with the man she eventually married ...

  6. A man returns to his home town after a lengthy absence spent fighting in the US Civil War. Although his apparent character transformation arouses his wife's and others' suspicions, everyone is ...

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  8. Jun 2, 2022 · THE LONG CORNER, by Alexander Maksik. (Europa, $27.) A writer who has traded his literary aspirations for the flat language of commerce narrates Maksik’s fourth novel, set in a New York reeling ...

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