欧宝娱乐

Some reviews refer to this family as dysfunctional. But what is so tragic about the story is that the family is normal, that such things can happen in any family. Love and resentment. Love and anger. Love and guilt. What family does not alternate at times between these feelings? Julia Lambert, an artist and mother, says at one point in the novel about being an artist, "You had to find it yourself and then make it your own. You had to create your own balance, your own certainty. No one else knew what you were trying to do. You had to find your own faith, you had to stand up for it against the assaults of logic and fear and the articulations of the whole critical world." Her son Jack, in his addiction to heroin, had shown himself to be unable to stand up against the assaults of logic and fear, to create his life as his mother creates her art. Each member of the family feels responsible for what has happened to Jack. But part of the tragedy is that Jack has made his choices, bad ones, and that ultimately only he could save himself.