In this book everything is hang up on one term: intertextuality.
Mrs. Dalloway is the subject/object that is the intermediate between three women, three, as it seems at first, totally different and incoherent lives. There is Virginia Woolf, who is writing Mrs Dalloway, struggling with her story. There is Laura Brown, who is reading Mrs Dalloway and Clarissa who is the late ’90 version of Mrs Dalloway. Every woman has her own struggles and doubts. We, the readers, are given a look in their worlds, their emotions, thoughts and eventually their decisions.
this is a preview of the hours — michael cunningham
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Mr. Pickens has his fair(?) share of bad luck in this book. His delinquent brother F.X. has moved in and goes after the 18-years-old girl, Mr. Pickens has a crush on. Then when he wants F.X. out of HIS house, F.X. says it is his house too. And that is just the beginning, there is much more where that came from.
Everything is going wrong for Mr. Pickens and he can’t do anything about it. People lie and cheat and he is the victim, he is the reluctant center figure in all of this. Together with Burma and Donna Lee he then tries to turn everything around and get the best out of the situations he is forced into.
this is a preview of modern baptists — james wilcox
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Thomas Fowler and Alden Pyle are friends against their will in a time of war. Fowler is a British journalist who won’t take sides and Pyle is “the quiet American” with his own agenda who seems like a young and naive man.
At the beginning of the book Fowler learns that Pyle is dead. The rest of the book is the time that Fowler and Pyle knew each other, told by Fowler. We get to know how they met, how Pyle takes Fowler’s girl Phuong, how Pyle saves Fowler from being killed and how (besides all this) they are destined to get to know each other.
this is a preview of the quiet american — graham greene
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