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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.comINDIVIDUALISTS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! 47resignation in terms Rand could understand. Bits of Frank found theirway into Rand’s hero too. Roark’s cat-like grace and easy physicalitystruck the couple’s friends as a precise portrait of Frank.Frank had become increasingly important to Rand as connectionswith her family in Russia snapped. In 1936, putting a long-held dream inmotion, she began a torturous round of paperwork to bring her parents tothe United States. She petitioned the U.S. government for an immigrationvisa, obtaining letters from Universal describing her screenwriting work.She and Frank wrote a notarized deposition testifying to her financialindependence. She even prepaid her passage on the United States Lines.It was all to no avail. In late 1936 the Rosenbaums’ visa application wasdenied, and an appeal proved fruitless. Rand got the final word in a brieftelegram sent from Leningrad in May 1937: “Cannot get permission.” 22It was one of their last communications. Rand stopped respondingto family letters shortly afterward, believing that Russians who receivedmail from America could be in grave danger. It was a cruel kindness,for the Rosenbaums had no explanation for her sudden silence. Theypleaded with her to write. And then, ominously, the letters stoppedcoming. 23 Rand was irrevocably cut off from her family.Although she and Frank were now financially secure, it appearsthat they never seriously contemplated having children of their own. 24Rand’s books would be her children, to be carefully tended and agonizinglybirthed.As it turned out, “Second-Hand Lives” was a problem child. Withthe main characters sketched out, Rand turned to the much more difficultwork of plotting the novel, beginning an “enormous progressionof experimenting, thinking, starting from various premises.” Theframework would be Roark’s career, but beyond this basic line Randwas unsure how events should proceed. She spent months trying out “alot of pure superstructure calculations. What would be the key points ofRoark’s career, that is, how would he start, what would be the difficultieson the early stage, how would he become famous?” 25 She wrote adetailed outline of Hugo’s Les Miserables to grasp its underlying structureand create a model for herself.The most difficult part was the climax, “really a mind-breaker.” Randwanted a single dramatic event that would draw together the novel’sdisparate story lines, dramatize her theme, and thrill readers. Until