A review by jocelynw
The Confessions of Edward Day by Valerie Martin
3.0
A good beginning, terribly disappointing ending. Also:
- broke actors didn't own answering machines in 1974
- most vehicles didn't have back up beeps then - they only started getting phased in in 1970
- messing around with sweet cocktails and calling them martinis didn't happen until the 1990s
- people were not making mix tapes in 1974
- Tofu Pups weren't introduced until 1985
- while Polaroid begin selling the kind of camera that spits out the picture in fall 1973, the idea that a broke actor would have one within the year seems unlikely
- having studied there in the 1990s, Circle in the Square was referred to without an article
- while he might have ogled women, Sanford Meisner was gay.
Valerie Martin is old enough to know firsthand about these anachronisms.
- broke actors didn't own answering machines in 1974
- most vehicles didn't have back up beeps then - they only started getting phased in in 1970
- messing around with sweet cocktails and calling them martinis didn't happen until the 1990s
- people were not making mix tapes in 1974
- Tofu Pups weren't introduced until 1985
- while Polaroid begin selling the kind of camera that spits out the picture in fall 1973, the idea that a broke actor would have one within the year seems unlikely
- having studied there in the 1990s, Circle in the Square was referred to without an article
- while he might have ogled women, Sanford Meisner was gay.
Valerie Martin is old enough to know firsthand about these anachronisms.