Word: authorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tougher prisons lead to reduced crime. But for people fed up with lawbreaking, there is an undeniable psychological satisfaction in the thought of making hard time live up to its name. "Politicians are responding to the public, which is looking to impose mild forms of torture,'' says David Anderson, author of Crime & the Politics of Hysteria. In a new TIME/CNN poll, 67% of those questioned thought inmates were treated too leniently. Chain gangs were approved by 65%. And 51% thought convicts should be deprived of their TV sets and barbells...
...find work at a labor exchange. But the sight of hungry Mexicans spooks Kyra's clients, and she sees to it that the exchange is shut. Delaney's liberal beliefs crumble, and he votes with other residents to build a wall, with a gate, around their development. The author, mistrusting his skill and the reader's acuteness, relentlessly flashes irony alerts. Candido gets work constructing the wall, knowing well enough whom it is intended to keep out. Coyotes eat the nature writer's lapdogs, Osbert and Sacheverell. And when a mud slide sweeps Delaney toward mucky death, let there...
...about 1,250,000 words. That would be a mere warm-up lap for Ellis. In 67 years of recording his life and era, he has filled 35,000 or so pages with more than 20 million words, thereby gaining entry to the Guinness Book of World Records as author of the world's largest diary...
...here. McMurtry is a good, busy, workmanlike novelist, but except for that single volume, not a great one. An earlier novel, The Last Picture Show, caught scraps of magic with its misty recollection of long-gone boyhood. Terms of Endearment worked well and deserved its success. Some of the author's other modern-day fiction (Texasville; Evening Star) has been merely expert and forgettable...
...less beguiled reader might have turned away when the author, a couple of years ago, came out with a sequel, The Streets of Laredo. There were problems; Call was an old man, and McCrae had died toward the end of Lonesome Dove, after their Hat Creek Cattle Co.'s long drive to Montana. But Laredo worked as a tip of the author's sweat-stained Stetson to Lonesome Dove, and that was good enough...