The Good Side of Bad

The Good Side of Bad

The Good Side of Bad

Beverly Olevin

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Editorial:
White River Press
Año de edición:
2010
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Ficción moderna y contemporánea
ISBN:
9781935052357
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2024 UPDATE: NOW A CELEBRATED ALETHEA ROOT FILM that has won Best Feature Film and Best Director at several film festivals! It is now being shown in Berlin and much of Europe.Awards:Audience Award Best Feature, Festival of Cinema NYC> Best Director, Albuquerque Film and Music Festival> Awareness Film Festival, Grand Jury Award Feature Film> Dances With Films LA, Official Opening Night SelectionWinner of KIRKUS Discoveries 'Best Fiction of 2010'It’s 2008 and there’s more melting down than the economy. Peter is a successful Wall Street player until his world is turned upside down by theglobal economic crisis. The trick is to keep his life and career together while his sisters in Seattle struggle to hold on to jobs, homes and sanity.Younger sister Florence is losing her grip on reality...she jumped off a bridge, for starters. Mental holograms crack into the fissures of hermind as pieces fall away. Her brother and older sister, Sara, are forced to disrupt their lives in an attempt to save her. Ticking time bombs, real andimagined, challenge them to choose how they will show up for each other and for themselves. Moving between Seattle and New York, the story is toldthough the voices of the three siblings as they face their own crises and try to stay afloat.With insight and empathy, Olevin explores the mysterious world of mental illness, the corruption and greed of financial markets, and the tangled tiesof family. The Good Side of Bad is a finely wrought, humorous and moving journey towards compassion and the other side of loss.

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