Mildred Pierce Redux? | Lexiphane.com

The 1939 New York World's Fair and its theme of "The World of Tomorrow" was conceived in the wake of the very successful 1933-34 Chicago Exposition celebrating a "Century of Progress". One can't help but draw a similar comparison ..... His journey brings him to a hotel they once shared, a successful actor he went to grade school with, and a 13-year-old girl with pathologically bad parents [one of whom is a simulacrum of the author]. A piercing examination of the skeletons ...