What I Saw from Where I Stood | Review by Jonathan Yardley
In the following review, Yardley contends that it is ‘‘the sense of entering an unknown world’’ that makes Babe in Paradise appealing, and regards Silver’s compassion and sympathy for her characters noteworthy.
Peter and Janie, newly married, decide on impulse to leave home in Ohio and move to California. He wants to be a screenwriter, and she has acting ambitions. They toss ‘‘their wedding money and everything they owned’’ into their Volkswagen and head west. When they get there, it is a revelation of sorts:
‘‘Los Angeles, at first glance, seemed nothing like what Janie had imagined it to be. She anticipated wide streets lined with giraffe-necked palm trees, lawns as plush as carpets topped with wide, complacent houses. She expected a kind of sheen to bathe the...
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