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Motherless Children

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Set in the Long Island suburbs and on the girders of the Manhattan skyline in the early 1970's, this dramatic comedy follows the trials and tribulations of the stoical, wisecracking Canadian immigrant clan - the Fulton's.

When his wife dies young, Jim Fulton is left with four children and a neighborhood of relatives willing to help raise them.

But though loved and respected, with a profound sense of responsibility for his family and his work, Jim grapples clumsily with a world changing fast and violently, with the rise and fall of union labor, shifting waves of immigration, growing discontent with the US war in Vietnam, pervasive racial injustice, early efforts at gay pride and the growth of feminist sensibilities amongst working class women.

This is the original screenplay for an eight-part television series by one of American cinema's "…most uncompromising artists." --New York Times

"…an outsider's outsider, his independence not a temporarily convenient brand, but an entire ethos." --Metrograph

"Hartley combines a rigorous social conscience with the exuberance of fresh comic thinking." --Rolling Stone

Language: English

Pages: 460

Format: Paperback

Release: March 02, 2021

ISBN 13: 9781732181748

Motherless Children

0/5 ( ratings)

Set in the Long Island suburbs and on the girders of the Manhattan skyline in the early 1970's, this dramatic comedy follows the trials and tribulations of the stoical, wisecracking Canadian immigrant clan - the Fulton's.

When his wife dies young, Jim Fulton is left with four children and a neighborhood of relatives willing to help raise them.

But though loved and respected, with a profound sense of responsibility for his family and his work, Jim grapples clumsily with a world changing fast and violently, with the rise and fall of union labor, shifting waves of immigration, growing discontent with the US war in Vietnam, pervasive racial injustice, early efforts at gay pride and the growth of feminist sensibilities amongst working class women.

This is the original screenplay for an eight-part television series by one of American cinema's "…most uncompromising artists." --New York Times

"…an outsider's outsider, his independence not a temporarily convenient brand, but an entire ethos." --Metrograph

"Hartley combines a rigorous social conscience with the exuberance of fresh comic thinking." --Rolling Stone

Language: English

Pages: 460

Format: Paperback

Release: March 02, 2021

ISBN 13: 9781732181748

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