Word: authorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Alfred was a major influence for author John J.Osborn...
...going to be seen sending this check back. "He probably doesn't consider this version bad enough to take a chance," he says. "Most of the most objectionable parts were weeded out in the House." The support-the-boys rationale was happily echoed by the bill's chief author, Senate Appropriations Committee chairman Ted Stevens of Alaska. He said opposing the measure "would send the wrong message for the young men and women who represent this country in uniform." Not to mention those reindeer farmers back home...
...first two novels (the second is Lost Man's River), which are told as conflicting reports by townspeople. Thus the concluding novel, Bone by Bone (Random House; 410 pages; $26.95), which is Watson's own first-person account, appears after 900 pages of teasing preamble. Because the author has advertised his main character as a monstrous enigma, he must now provide the monster. But Watson's villainy doesn't reach heroic stature. He is a likable bully and a good shot. Most notably, he is a brutal drunk. "When I give in to that urge to drink and stir...
This home truth explains a great deal that seems merely shabby, not monstrous, and not puzzling enough to require three wagonloads of explication. The author may have been right, incidentally, not to present this rough man's thoughts in rough dialect. For long paragraphs, however, the words that come out of Watson's mouth are, somewhat jarringly, the worthy, scholarly, perceptive, always interesting, late 20th century observations of Peter Matthiessen. About his quirky trilogy a reader might conclude: brilliant, obsessive, panoramic--and two novels too many...
GETTYSBURG DRESS? Author and activist Larry Kramer claims to have uncovered evidence that Abe Lincoln was gay, and is writing a book about it. So is sex-researcher C.A. Tripp. What we know...