Barbara Stanwyck as invalid wife who has been marked for murder by her husband. She is a privileged brat, so it's interesting that she is able to elicit our sympathy. I guess murder does that. Burt Lancaster is the husband, uneducated and clearly tired of bossy-invalid Barbara. Based on a radio play, and there are lots of phone calls. I will try to find the radio play and listen to it.
Follows Sadie and Sam (Mazer) from childhood to mid-thirties when both are feeling old and a bit out of it in the gaming world. Characters are well-rounded, develop throughout the novel in interesting way. Plot is involved but sensible. Not a single, "Oh, come on!" moment. The book could have been faster paced. Odd, since the main topic is video games which are not for their speed of engagement and Gabrielle Zevin clearly knows her video games. Recommended by Michael Connelly in an interview. He also has Bosch pick up the book in his novel, Resurrection Walk, as Bosch tails a possible witness to a crime as she moves through a bookstore. Sadie and Sam do not get together at the end, which is good. Marx killed by homophobic nutcase who really wants to kill Sam, but Sam isn't there. Marx is father of Sadie's child.
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