Kelly introduces us to five disparate characters living on a violent estate.
The Ninth Rain (Headline, £14.99) is far more than the sum of its cliched parts, which include a fallen empire, a quest, monsters, magic and three disparate characters thrown together by fate.
These three disparate characters are part of a ragtag crew that cycles through the worn one-bedroom Murray Hill walk-up where Elizabeth Goodyear, who recently celebrated her 101st birthday, is confined after two knee operations.
The Sleepwalker chronicles the unraveling of the lives of four disparate characters as it transcends genre conventions and narrative contrivance to reveal something much more disturbing.
Indeed, the only thing these three disparate characters appear to have in common is the "free-spirited" Caroline, the mythic center around which the family revolved.
In French director/co-screenwriter Catherine Corsini's latest film, Three Worlds, three disparate characters -- Al, Juliette and Vera -- cross paths in the aftermath of a tragic car accident on the streets of Paris.
Richard Howard delivered two widely disparate characters: the grieving Russ in Act I and the loudmouth plumber in Act II.
Though there can hardly be three more disparate characters, brought together they demonstrated that literature still has the power to bring us together, to gather up and interpret for us our collective humanity, showing that while we all may be different, through the miraculous transformation of reading we can, if only for the length of 400 pages or so, become one.
The Tavern Disparate characters meet one dark and stormy night in George M. Cohan's classic mystery-comedy.
Colonel Rheault inspired two disparate Vietnam-related narratives: Brando's Kurtz character in "Apocalypse Now" and Daniel Ellsberg's leak of the Pentagon Papers.
