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Acts of Love pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
IN his new novel, Elia Kazan gives us a young woman
who is a mystery--to us and to herself. She is small-boned,
fragile; beautiful and strongly sexual; a girl who has
grown up charming others. When we first see her, she is
blushing. She seems shy and uncertain, yielding, a perfect
and pleasing kitten.
All her life Ethel has been searching for strength--in
men. Now she thinks she has found that strength in the
young petty officer she is going to marry. Teddy is hand-
some and he is passionate, but his real attraction lies in a
certain assurance, his look of being in control, in com-
mand. Teddy is the hero who will not fail her, who will
not disappoint her, whom she cannot run away from as
she has run away from all the others.
And the moment she meets Teddy s father, Costa
Avaliotis, she recognizes instinctively the source of
Teddy s strength. Costa: stubborn, arrogant, protective,
ferociously loyal to the old ways, the old codes; a true
Greek patriarch; a man of the sea, with a sea captain s
absolute authority, a personal presence like an elemental
force. Ethel finds herself drawn to the father as well as
the son, determined to be a proper Greek daughter as
well as a proper Greek wife. She wants nothing more than
to throw away the rich, permissive way of life she has
been handed by her successful surgeon father for the sim-
plicities and absolutes that Costa, and his entire world of
Florida fishermen and sponge divers, have preserved intact
from their Greek village past. And when Teddy no longer
seems to her as strong as she thought, there is Costa him-
self--to please, to obey, to rely on.
But suddenly one morning--she doesn t know why--
her old pattern takes over, and she is on the move again,
from place to place, from one man to the next. The angry
Puerto Rican metalworker who turns to violence when
she injures his pride.., the Navy psychiatrist who
glimpses something of her hidden nature through his
self-absorption...the young Mexican executive, won-
derful to look at, who shows off like a bullfighter, await-
in~ her flatterv, disquieted by her detachment ("In her
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Acts of Love pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024