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Nov 30, 2010 · In “What Maisie Knew,” Henry James explores the dynamics of a very modern family from the point of view of young Maisie Farange, whose parents divorce amid accusations of infidelity and neglect. To survive in this environment, Maisie must negotiate new alliances and, at the same time, avoid taking sides as her parents, their respective lovers and even the nanny battle for supremacy.
May 3, 2013 · Indie director duo McGehee & Siegel has harvested great word-of-mouth and critic appraise for their second feature THE DEEP END (2001, 8/10), although the consecutive spelling bee drama BEE SEASON (2005, 5/10) is a fiasco and after a low-key romance-drama UNCERTAINTY (2009), their fifth collaboration is WHAT MAISIE KNEW, a modern-day custody ...
Dec 1, 2004 · What Maisie Knew Credits: E-text prepared by Eve Sobol, South Bend, Indiana, USA and revised by Joseph E. Loewenstein, M.D. Language: English: LoC Class: PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature: Subject: Domestic fiction Subject: Governesses -- Fiction Subject: Bildungsromans Subject: Girls -- Fiction Subject: Remarried ...
What Maisie Knew. In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle. 531 IMDb 7.4 1 h 38 min 2013. X-Ray R.
About What Maisie Knew. A new edition of the innovative, emotionally complex novel. After her parents’ bitter divorce, young Maisie Farange finds herself shuttled between her selfish mother and vain father, who value her only as a means for provoking each other. Maisie—solitary, observant, and wise beyond her years—is drawn into an ...
Mar 12, 2003 · Maisie knew later what it was, though doubtless she couldn't have made a statement of it: these were things that a few days' talk with Mrs. Wix quite lighted up. The principal one was a matter Mrs. Wix herself always immediately mentioned: she had had a little girl quite of her own, and the little girl had been killed on the spot.
May 1, 2013 · On the second page of What Maisie Knew, Henry James' 1897 novel about the divorce of two wretchedly selfish people and the effect it has on their young daughter Maisie, an acquaintance expresses sympathy for the girl. "The words were an epitaph for the tomb of Maisie's childhood," James writes, and the novel's events go downhill from there.
