Evening Class (novel) a Dickensian way, they bump into each other and are affected by the decisions of those around them. It is a story of love and deceit, family drama, wealth and poverty, of friendship and courage. Nora O'Donoghue and Aidan Dunne also appear in "Quentins", another novel by Maeve Binchy, and play a more significant role in "Heart and Soul". The novel heavily inspired the plot of the Danish feature film "Italian for Beginners" (2000), which won a Silver Berlin Bear and several other major international awards. Maeve Binchy was not paid, credited nor informed of this, but was later paid
The Man Who Studied Yoga quit. After missing a publishing opportunity with a "lady's magazine", Mailer conceived of an eight-novel series based on the dreams of "a small frustrated man". This series would include Sergius O'Shaugnessy, the roguish protagonist of "The Deer Park" and "The Time of Her Time", and other characters with shifting names travelling through time and "through many worlds, through pleasure, business, communism, church, working class, crime, homosexuality and mysticism". While Mailer deserted the overly-ambitious eight-novel idea, he wrote the first draft of "The Deer Park" and the 29-page abandoned prologue to it became "The Man Who Studied Yoga". Mailer credits his