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Ellis promised. He is not gay. Or is just living fabulously enough? For all her perfection on stage and screen, she wasn’t afraid to be human and for that she should be admired. Three months later, Ellis moved back home to find Carol living there and his mother’s painting gone.
In the present, Ellis gets six weeks off from work because of an arm injury sustained when the car hit him.
They got along immediately and discussed the Van Gogh replica and Van Gogh’s life. I’m usually not a fan of writers that narrate their own work (unless a memoir), but she is an exception.
This will likely go down as one of my favorite reads of the year.
Rating (story): 4.5/5 stars
Rating (narration): 4/5
Formats: Audiobook (library loan)
Dates read: July 30 - 31, 2021
Multi-tasking: Not recommended.
The concept of gay icons has always fascinated me.
What makes a celebrity a gay icon? Perhaps because she was dolled up so heavily by MGM in her early career, Garland’s persona as “girl next door” became almost over-the-top and garish. Admittedly, I’m not a Judy Garland gay. Now that you know I'm not some homophobic bigot, I just don't understand how the Tin Man got away with being SO gay. When the police brought Ellis to the hospital, he was surprised to see that Annie only had a bruise on her temple.
As her condition worsened, his father took night shifts to avoid her, and Ellis became her primary caretaker. Annie always urged Ellis to go find Michael, but he refused.
They return to Oxford but do not see each other for a while. Or any other characters that changed so much after seeing a movie many times?
EDIT: Upon further investigation, the actor is Jack Haley. On the trip, they discussed how much they missed Michael, and three weeks later, Michael returned.
In the present, Ellis goes to his father’s house for Leonard’s birthday and tells Leonard and Carol that he quit his job.
Chris asks G to help him write a letter to his parents, and as the two spend time together, they grow closer. His marriage suffered, and he and Annie only managed to rekindle it with a trip to Venice. When she wins, she chooses a replica of a painting of sunflowers by Vincent Van Gogh, ignoring Leonard’s instructions to pick a bottle of whiskey instead.
On his bedside table is a picture of him and his wife Annie, along with their friend Michael. I haven't really sat down to watch it in years, so that may be the reason as well. Michael encountered G one day at the National Gallery and began following him because G reminded him of Ellis. As he begins to read it, the narrative shifts into Michael’s voice.
In November of 1989, Michael begins writing to deal with the stress of the decline of his partner, G, who has AIDS.
They walk back to her house, and she lets him go ahead to meet Ellis alone.