They're making a movie on it, Alice. Robert Duvall is supposed to be in it. A Mudcatter told that its release has been postponed from the previous October date.

I don't know if I'll go see it. As bleak but riveting as the book is I'm afraid the movie won't create the same atmosphere. Heaven knows, I don't want it to be more bleak and riveting. :)

Speaking of the book, I'm glad that it didn't go in for the obvious ending but, just to myself, I pretend that in the end they find a tiny sprig of green grass.