Falconer

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Falconer (surname)

Falconer is a Scottish surname and an Anglicized version of the French surname "Fauconnier". In both cases, the name is derived from the occupational name for a trainer of falcons.

People with the surname Falconer:

Falconer (novel)

Falconer is a 1977 novel by American short-story writer and novelist John Cheever. It tells the story of Ezekiel Farragut, a university professor and drug addict who is serving time in Falconer State Prison for the murder of his brother. Farragut struggles to retain his humanity in the prison environment, and begins an affair with a fellow prisoner.

Time magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.

Adaptations

In 2009, Audible.com produced an audio version of Falconer, narrated by Jay Snyder, as part of its Modern Vanguard line of audiobooks.

In Pop Culture

Falconer is the novel George Costanza reads in the 1992 Seinfeld episode The Cheever Letters .

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Purgatory (drama)

Purgatory is a drama by the Irish writer William Butler Yeats. It was first presented in at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, on 19 August 1938, a few months before Yeats' death.

Story

It tells a family saga of decline and fall through its two remaining members: an Old Man (the father) and a Boy (his sixteen-year-old son). It is set outside the former family home, which the Old Man's father had drunkenly burned down, leading him to kill his father as the building perished. The Boy is skeptical about tales of his family's former grandeur, and is repelled by the Old Man's story of losing his own mother as she gave birth to him, and the decline subsequent events wrought on the family. Tonight, the Old Man tells the Boy, is the anniversary of his mother's wedding night. This was the night on which he was conceived after a bout of drunken carousing by his father, and thus when his mother's fate was sealed. At this point a ghostly figure appears illuminated in a window of the wrecked house. In an attempt to wrest his mother's soul from purgatory, he suddenly stabs and kills the Boy. However it appears to be in vain: approaching hoof beats of his ghostly father returning to the bridal bed signal that no spirits have left the place, and the grim cycle begins again...

Purgatory (band)

Purgatory is an Indonesian metal band, formed in 1991.

History

Purgatory was formed by Hendrie (bass/vocals), Lutfie (guitar), AL (Drums), and Arief (guitars) as a death metal band. In the beginning they formed this band without any serious meanings. There is no exact date of their formation, but certainly they had been around since 1991. They used to always sang the songs of Obituary and Sepultura. The name purgatory itself was inspired from a horror movie namely A Nightmare on Elm Street. There was a scene in the movie that displays the arrow that bear the word 'PURGATORY'. This later inspired L.T.F. and his little brother Al to use the name 'PURGATORY' as the name of their band.

The band released their first release, Abyss Call in 1995. The EP was later followed with the release of a compilation album by Rotocorp Records, namely Metalik Klinik I, wherein Purgatory contributed their song "Sakaratul Maut". A year later, under the label Rotocorp Records, the band released their first album, Ambang Kepunahan.

Purgatory (1999 film)

Purgatory is a 1999 western fantasy film directed by Uli Edel.

Plot

An outlaw band, led by Blackjack Britton (Eric Roberts) and Cavin Guthrie (Peter Stormare), rob a bank. During the subsequent gunfight, a woman, Dolly Sloan (Shannon Kenny), is shot and dies in the arms of Cavin's nephew Sonny (Brad Rowe), a young member of the gang who is the lookout and appears to still have a conscience. The gang flees and is pursued by a posse. After passing through a dust storm, they enter a tunnel, emerging at the other end into verdant pastures around the town of Refuge.

In this town, no one carries a gun, drinks, or swears (except in the saloon). Also, whenever the town's church bell sounds, all of the residents flock to the church without question.

Sonny seems to think he has seen some of the residents before, but he is unable to remember where. He becomes very puzzled when a stagecoach arrives at night with a woman who is identical to Dolly Sloan (Shannon Kenny), who died in his arms, when they robbed the bank in Sweetwater. Meanwhile, the rest of the outlaw gang begin to cause mayhem and threaten the destruction of the town; but the men of Refuge seem unwilling to resist them. At one point a young woman, Rose (Amelia Heinle), who has become the object of Sonny's love, is threatened by the gang; and he is seen by the men of Refuge as willing to lay down his life to save her.