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The
Weather in Berlin by Ward Just Rating: ••• (Recommended) |
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Looking for Inspiration In Ward Just’s new novel, The
Weather in Berlin, filmmaker Dixon Greenwood agrees to a three month
fellowship in Germany in hopes of finding a restoration of his creative
spark. Using sparse language and clear images, Just displays Greenwood for
who he is away from Los Angeles. Here’s an excerpt from early in the book: “I like to work,
he continued. Always have. I like the set, for me it’s a kind of lair. I saw
the world from the set, the lights, the camera, the actors with the script I had
written myself. Then something happened, damned if I know what it was. Something.
The weather changed, drizzle all day long. Just bypasses the need for quotation marks
in his choice of sparseness. Greenwood finds the weather much improved in
Berlin, and Just lets the attentive and patient reader enjoy watching it all
happen. Steve Hopkins, June 1, 2002 |
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ã 2002 Hopkins and Company, LLC The
recommendation rating for this book appeared in the July 2002
issue of Executive
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