The writing is often breathtaking and the plot wraps around big themes of individuality, society and the struggles that occur when men of stone-etched beliefs encounter forces that are bigger, stronger and more unbending. Unrivaled, unchallenged, unsurpassed.' Deirdre McNamer and Bryan Di Salvatore, writers and spouses in Missoula, Mont., used fewer words, but had a similar opinion. It meanders and strays, is sometimes humorous, sometimes philosophical, sometimes dark. Sometimes a Great Notion is a fantastic novel, as deep and winding as the river that pulls at the foundation of the ramshackle Stamper house. They are all fully-realized, often conflicted, but all likable in their own ways, with principles that sometimes hold them back and other times propel them forward toward madness. Kesey jumps unannounced from first-person narrator to first-person narrator in a way that is often jarring and sometimes confusing, but gives us insight into each character’s motivation. After the suicide of his mother, he begins to abuse drugs and attempts his own suicide. Unlike the other Stamper's, he is refined and well-educated, having attended a graduate program at Yale. Hank is the only character in Sometimes a Great Notion to sw. What transpires is a battle of man against nature, man against society, and of brother against brother. Leland (Lee) Stamper Lee Stamper is the child of Hank and his second, much younger wife. Hank Stamper, the protagonist of Sometimes a G of archetypes out of the dim mythic past of. Fonda’s underutilized as a thoughtless blowhard, but he’s got a couple great scenes. No one’s great, but everyone’s pretty damn good. The laundry list of problems aside, it’s well-acted. Sarrazin starts the film a far better character than he finishes it. To help manage the work, they reluctantly call for Hank’s half brother, Leland, an intellectual who attends college on the east coast and, as we soon discover, has a thing for Hank’s wife, Viv. This type of humorwhich is often related to the concept of self-relianceis manifest in a number of vividly drawn characters, such as Hank’s father, Henry Indian Jenny, a local sorceress and. In Sometimes a Great Notion, character development has to be regressive. But when the union loggers at the local mills go on strike, the Stamper family decides to pick up the slack and provide the mills with the lumber they need, much to the dismay of pretty much everyone in town. Roger Ebert JanuTweet Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch EDITORS NOTE: This review contains spoilers. Henry, the batty old patriarch, and his son Hank run the family business. It follows the exploits of the Stamper clan, a family of hard-nosed loggers in the fictional town of Wakonda, Oregon. ![]() This is his lesser known, though some would argue more developed second novel. ![]() Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is one of my favorite novels.
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