A very important and insightful book from this time period, Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie, accurately depicts the roots of these changes. ... It suggested that women, like men, could now be identified by their careers, and pursue personal fortunes, for Carrie had landed a job in the newly developed retail outlets. ...
The God of Small Things received England's 1997 Booker Prize making Arundhathi Roy the first Indian citizen to ever win the honour. This book has become a rapid Indian Best seller. It's the author's first novel and has been acclaimed as a masterpiece ever since it became famous. This is the ...
Al Pacino stars as the Cuban refugee, Tony Montana, whose intelligence, guts, and ambition help him skyrocket from dishwasher to the top of a criminal empire but whose eventual paranoia and incestuous desire for his kid sister (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) prove his undoing. ... The plot is generally the same as the original, including the implied incestuous relationship with his younger sister. ... One less sexually charged than the relationship between Montana and his sister Gina (Mastrantonio), but unsurprisingly for a Stone-scripted film, the boys tend to have all the fun; partying, spen...
Ruth's sisters persuaded her to take care of them, and other family members provided housing and financial support for the King family in Durham. ... But as luck would have it, Tabitha, rescued it and persuaded him to continue and in 1974, Doubleday published Carrie, which became a bestseller and a hit 1976 movie, directed by Brian De Palma and starring Sissy Spacek. ...
