But now that it has taken us up into the sky, it has become an ELEVATOR. Lifts only go up and down inside buildings. ‘Madam,’ said Mr Wonka, ‘it is not a lift any longer. ‘What in the world keeps this crazy thing up in the air?’ croaked Grandma Josephine. Mr and Mrs Bucket were smiling for the first time in years, and the three old ones in the bed were grinning at one another with pink toothless gums. Everybody on board was wildly excited at the thought of going to live in the famous Chocolate Factory. The Great Glass Lift was a thousand feet up and cruising nicely. Grandpa Joe, as you remember, had got out of bed to go around the Chocolate Factory with Charlie. Grandma Josephine, Grandma Georgina and Grandpa George were still in bed, the bed having been pushed on board just before take-off. Grandpa George and Grandma Georgina, Mrs Bucket’s father and mother. Grandpa Joe and Grandma Josephine, Mr Bucket’s father and mother. Mr and Mrs Bucket, Charlie’s father and mother. Mr Willy Wonka, chocolate-maker extraordinary. The passengers in the Lift (just to remind you) were: Charlie Bucket, our hero. Only a short while before, Mr Wonka had told him that the whole gigantic fabulous Chocolate Factory was his, and now our small friend was returning in triumph with his entire family to take over. “Mr Wonka Goes Too Far The last time we saw Charlie, he was riding high above his home town in the Great Glass Lift.
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Its première, on April 5th, was the biggest opening weekend of any animated film ever, beating out the previous record holder, Disney’s “Frozen II.” “Mario Bros.,” which stars Chris Pratt as the voice of Mario and Anya Taylor-Joy as Princess Peach, has also attracted a robust international audience, earning more than five hundred and thirty million dollars abroad. Movie,” an animated-film version of the Nintendo video-game franchise, surpassed a billion dollars in worldwide ticket sales. By night, they weave from Brooklyn to the Upper East Side to the Hamptons among a rotating cast of celebrities, artists, Internet entrepreneurs, stuffy intellectuals, and bad-mannered grifters. By day, the girls sell clothes in a market stall, pinching pennies for their Bed-Stuy sublet and bodega lunches. In her diary, Isa describes a sweltering summer in the glittering city. They have little money, but that’s hardly going to stop them from having a good time. She arrives in New York City for a summer of adventure with her best friend, one newly blond Gala Novak. Isa Epley is all of twenty-one years old, and already wise enough to understand that the purpose of life is the pursuit of pleasure. Refreshing and wry in equal measure, Happy Hour is an intoxicating novel of youth well spent. With the verve and bite of Ottessa Moshfegh and the barbed charm of Nancy Mitford, Marlowe Granados’s stunning début brilliantly captures a summer of striving in New York City I imagine this might be like what it was like to hear fairy stories before the world was so thoroughly explored, and you could believe that somewhere beyond the edge of the map you knew there really was a kingdom where girls had hair with the tensile strength to support a lovesick Prince’s weight up the tower. For me as a child that meant the near east held a mysterious draw that comes with a lack of actual knowledge, and let my imagination run wild until everything I read in storybooks seemed like it really might be out there in the desert. In fact I don’t think we ever even ventured beyond the French Borders unless Napoleon did. In school all my history lessons from the time we were done with the Egyptians and the Romans up until 1914 leaned heavily west. We follow her across the sea and onto what seems like the gallows of loneliness. In Brooklyn, Eilis Lacey leaves Enniscorthy, Ireland (Toibin's hometown), for Brooklyn in the early 1950s. It was suggestive of the intimacy he achieves in his literature. But what I remember best, besides Toibin's warmth, is his fountain pen and notebook. He has a wonderful old house near the center of town, full of paintings and full of light. I had the chance to meet Toibin in Dublin a year or two after our first interview. But both of his subsequent novels are stories of exile: The Master, about Henry James, the American writer abroad and now, Brooklyn. It was a contemporary tale set in Ireland, about three generations of women caring for a man dying of AIDS. I first interviewed Toibin in 1999, for the novel BlackWater Lightship. His fiction and nonfiction works have wandered far. He is 53, a stocky man with a large, bald head and expressive eyes. Read an excerpt of Colm Toibin's latest novel, Brooklyn.Ĭolm Toibin's literary career has been gathering in force and reputation over the decades. |