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...high imaginative order. Flanagan, 64, a professor of English at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, first demonstrated his gift for evoking the past in the constant shimmer of good fiction eight years ago, when he published The Year of the French. The work received broad acclaim and was the National Book Critics Circle's choice as the best novel of 1979. It is a rich and complex telling of a rebellion on the west coast of Ireland, where in 1798 an army of the French Revolution landed and briefly allied itself with the restless peasantry against their...
Assigned to military intelligence in World War I, Menzies discovered that he enjoyed wielding power from the shadows, and he did not need or want public acclaim. Even his three wives knew only that he had some connection to the government. Between the wars he was deputy to "C," as the head of the SIS (Britain's version of the CIA) is titled. In 1939 he was appointed "C" himself, moving into an office that was connected to his living quarters by a hidden door and passageway...
...make amends for past behavior, the "New Gary" is an entirely unrepentant fellow who didn't tell even his best friends that he was going to re-enter the fray. Hart seems determined to become the Sidney Biddle Barrows of presidential politics, unremorsefully parlaying shameful private conduct into public acclaim...
Writer Larry Donner (Billy Crystal) involuntarily screams "Slut!" whenever anyone mentions his ex-wife Margaret (Kate Mulgrew). She stole his manuscript and is gleefully living off the fame and luxury the book's acclaim earned her. Donner loudly proclaims to anyone who will listen that he wants her dead. At the same time, he suffers from a writer's block so intense that he is unable to finish even the first sentence of his novel or make love to his girl-friend Beth, played with pretty, intelligent understatement by Kim Griest...
...Jolley book, including six other novels and a collection of stories, to be released in the U.S. in the past three years. Prior to 1984, she was one of Australia's best-kept literary secrets. Now her international reputation has edged past the cultish toward the catapult of runaway acclaim...