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Thursday with An Old Book
Jun. 10th, 2010 11:42 amCloudy and humid, 80 degrees (26.7 Celsius).
Started reading Sinclair Lewis' Dodsworth last night. First came across this in the movie version -- filmed in 1936 by William Wyler, it starred Walter Huston as Sam Dodsworth, a retired automotive-industry executive whose wife Frances (Ruth Chatterton) convinces him they should go on a months-long trip to Europe. Once there, long-buried fractures in their relationship appear and their marriage begins to fall apart. It's a terrific movie that has held up very well, and for 1936 it's got something of a twist ending.
Anyway. I'd wanted to read it ever since, but the book is out of print, so I hunted around and found a nice hardback copy from 1947 (!) on Alibris and ordered it. It's a Modern Library edition (about the size of a small paperback) and has the previous owner's name on a bookplate -- Evelyn Riley Norquist. And so far it's very good.
There. That was fairly tl;dr.
Started reading Sinclair Lewis' Dodsworth last night. First came across this in the movie version -- filmed in 1936 by William Wyler, it starred Walter Huston as Sam Dodsworth, a retired automotive-industry executive whose wife Frances (Ruth Chatterton) convinces him they should go on a months-long trip to Europe. Once there, long-buried fractures in their relationship appear and their marriage begins to fall apart. It's a terrific movie that has held up very well, and for 1936 it's got something of a twist ending.
Anyway. I'd wanted to read it ever since, but the book is out of print, so I hunted around and found a nice hardback copy from 1947 (!) on Alibris and ordered it. It's a Modern Library edition (about the size of a small paperback) and has the previous owner's name on a bookplate -- Evelyn Riley Norquist. And so far it's very good.
There. That was fairly tl;dr.