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\"\"<\/a>The <\/em>Downton Abbey craze has led to a plethora of recommendations for books on the World War I era of Britain. I\u2019m interested in this era for the States. What good novels are out there about this time frame, preferably set in New England?<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em><\/p>\n

Much obliged,
Calliope<\/em><\/p>\n

A few near misses: Ethan Frome<\/a><\/em> (1911) begins in 1910 in rural Massachusetts, but the main action occurs in the 1890s. Main Street<\/a><\/em> (1921) describes a small town during the war years, but it’s set in Minnesota. Sadie\u2019s favorite Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Understood Betsy<\/em><\/a> (1916) is set in Vermont\u2014but it\u2019s for children. Our Town<\/a><\/em> is of course a play. Spoon River Anthology<\/a><\/em> is set in Illinois and is, of course, a book of poems … but if you want New England life in the early twentieth century, I can\u2019t help recommending the Tilbury poems of Edwin Arlington Robinson, e.g., Children of the Night<\/a><\/em> (1921), which includes the sonnet \u201cRueben Bright\u201d:<\/p>\n

\n

Because he was a butcher and thereby
Did earn an honest living (and did right),
I would not have you think that Reuben Bright
Was any more a brute than you or I;
For when they told him that his wife must die,
He stared at them, and shook with grief and fright,
And cried like a great baby half that night,
And made the women cry to see him cry.<\/p>\n

And after she was dead, and he had paid
The singers and the sexton and the rest,
He packed a lot of things that she had made
Most mournfully away in an old chest
Of hers, and put some chopped-up cedar boughs
In with them, and tore down the slaughter-house.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Closer to the bull\u2019s-eye: The Late George Apley<\/a><\/em> (1938) or Point of No Return<\/a><\/em> (1949), both by John P. Marquand. The former traces the decline of a Boston Brahmin family between the Civil War and the Depression. The latter concerns a Don Draper\u2013ish New York banker, Charles Gray, who has tried to bury his humble beginnings in Clyde, Massachusetts. The past\u2014i.e., the twenties\u2014catches up with Charles in the person of Malcolm Bryant, a sociologist who published a study of Clyde. Point of No Return<\/em> may be set a little late, but it\u2019s funny and evocative and pure pleasure to read.<\/p>\n

Previous advice columns have addressed the question of good movie adaptations of novels. What I\u2019m wondering is, what books have you wished would be translated into film? <\/em><\/p>\n

Sadie writes:<\/em> I feel a certain kind of nerd (and I\u2019m describing myself) devotes an undue amount of time to pondering these questions. I have never understood, for instance, why Georgette Heyer novels (specifically The Grand Sophy<\/a><\/em>) have never gotten the miniseries treatment\u2014I mean, Netflix tells me that there are dozens of lurid Catherine Cookson adaptations, but the infinitely more clever, subtle, and (I daresay) historically accurate Heyer has generated nary a one? (Okay, that\u2019s an exaggeration\u2014a vigilant fan site tells me that there has been a spoof of The Reluctant Widow<\/a><\/em> and a German adaptation of Arabella<\/a><\/em>.)<\/p>\n

It is a favored pastime among Barbara Pym fans to ponder wholly inappropriate casting choices for adaptations of Excellent Women<\/a><\/em>. I am not exempt from this practice.<\/p>\n

Others I\u2019d personally like to see: The Secret History<\/a><\/em>; the entire Betsy-Tacy canon (also, by necessity, a miniseries. Very high-budget); The Little Stranger<\/a><\/em>; The True Deceiver<\/a><\/em> (in my fantasy world, Bergman adapts this); The Sea, The Sea<\/a><\/em> (I see Ian McKellan in the lead); The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll<\/a><\/em>; The Art of Fielding<\/a><\/em>. Some of these, obviously, are more likely than others. <\/p>\n

I want to read a book where twins, and their twin nature, figure heavily in the plot. If you can<\/em>\u2019t think of any twin texts, I<\/em>\u2019m also interested in fiction that puts incest at the heart of the story. I loved <\/em>Outer Dark and I\u2019d like to explore the theme some more. <\/em><\/p>\n

We sent this one to our Special Twin Consultant (and Paris Review<\/em> proofreader) Georgia Cool. Georgia replies:<\/p>\n

The thing about twins (and twincest) is that it\u2019s all a little soap opera-y. With the possible exception of The God of Small Things<\/a><\/em>, it\u2019s hard to find an example of an author handling twinship in a subtle way. What your reader might be looking for you can find plenty of in mythology … incest, murder, rape, babies being left for dead. Like Romulus and Remus. The movie The House of Yes<\/em> has twin incest, featuring Parker Posey cast as a Jackie Kennedy\u2013obsessed crazy person who sleeps with her twin brother. There is also Dead Ringers<\/em>, with supercreepy Jeremy Irons as twin gynecologists. So on the one side you\u2019ve got dark and creepy twin stuff; the other side is hot twin cheerleaders in a Coors Light commercial. I think your reader wanted the first kind. The current issue<\/a> of National Geographic<\/em> has a very good cover article about twins, with plenty of photos of identical twins at all ages, which might appeal to people with a creepy interest, too.<\/p>\n

Your reader wanted fiction, but she could also look into the sad and fascinating Dionne quintuplets, who did allege that their father sexually molested them … They were the ones who were identical quintuplets born in Canada in the 1930s and were taken by the government and put in a zoo (really!). It was a huge tourist attraction. There are a bunch of memoirs from the Dionne quints, but they don\u2019t have that much literary interest. I wish there was a really good nonfiction book about the Dionne quints\u2014maybe Alison and I should write that one day.<\/p>\n

Another creepy nonfiction twins book that I found equally terrifying and compelling as a kid: The Silent Twins<\/a><\/em>, by Marjorie Wallace, about these twins who only spoke their own secret language and then went insane and became arsonists and then ended up in a mental hospital.<\/p>\n

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