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"Summer Reading" by Hilma Wolitzer The lives of three different women intersect in this welldrawn novel set in today's moneyed Hamptons. The book's centerpiece is a reading group, the "Page Turners." The characters of the 19th century novels covered in the group take on special significance for the women reading them. "Summer Reading" is fastpaced and smart, and will, itself, make good summer reading. - Mimi Beman, Mitchell's Book Corner Nantucket Bookworks 25 Broad Street, 228-4000 "Falling Man" by Don DeLillo Having escaped the World Trade Center, a man emerges from the ashen debris and returns to the apartment of his wife and young son, from whom he has been estranged, and stays. His son and two friends ("the Siblings") search the sky for planes and receive strange messages from a bearded man they call "Bill Lawton." His wife facilitates an early Alzheimer group whose members discuss, along with their daily problems of adjustment, the meaning of the attacks.
- Dick Burns, Nantucket Bookworks VIDEOS Camera Shop & Nantucket Video 32 Main Street, 228-0101 "Letters from Iwo Jima" (Rated R for graphic war violence) The second of Clint Eastwood's films about Iwo Jima - with last year's being "Flags of Our Fathers." Told from the Japanese perspective, this film focuses more on the battle itself that is being fought on a volcanic island of black sand. Letters that are written home give us a glimpse into the Japanese soldiers' inner lives along with their worries about family and their patriotism. Ken Watanabe is an old-school lieutenant general who respects the United States and willing to fight it all the same but not without a feeling of sad resignation.
Camera Shop & Nantucket Video Orange Street Video 117 Orange Street, 228-5806 "Hannibal Rising" (Rated R for strong grisly violent content and some language/sexual references.) The movie opens when a young Hannibal Lecter witnesses his sister being murdered by Nazis - after which point, Lecter's descent into depravity begins with the hunt for his sister's murderers. The murder of his sister's killers is the beginning. - Kate O'Brien, manager,
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