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May 31, 2013
Shakespeare descibed it this way: "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing," Dubus describes it thusly: "all this rising and falling and nothing changing that feels like living," an existence that averages out to zero. If not a Great American Novel, House of Sand & Fog is at least a Great Californian Novel. His California coast is not made of beachbabes, but waves that serve as a reminder of this meaningless rising & falling. You know when he describes the protagonist as "heavy as sand" that this is not the airy sand that you let flow through your fingers on a beach; it is the sand of sandbags, of natural disasters and wars. ****************************************************** Both the book and the movie ooze Bay Area, and it's a testament to the writer that most of the lines in the movie are taken directly from the source. ********************** Ref: pg 180, 210