Word: beene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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McKay is not the only half-truth in the novel; Louis Agassiz, a Harvard professor in the 1850s and the national biologist in a golden age of zoology, plays a small but acidulous part in the book. "I have been accused of character assassination," McMahon says, "but in fact his...
Although McMahon's novels have both been well-received and a third is on the way, he insists that his true profession remains science. "One can only really have one profession, one thing that one is known for. But that doesn't prevent one from having a powerful distraction," he...
"I've been writing fiction since I was very young, but I'm not sure there's such a profession as writing fiction. There is a very precarious niche available to five or seven people in the world at any one moment. But there isn't any secure living in...
Despite a degree of political harassment and the humiliation and frustration of seeing her works banned, Gordimer protests she falls far short of Rosa's ideal. "I've never been named, and wouldn't be (naming is a form of punishment less severe than banning, but which restricts movement and...
More importantly, Thompson isn't lazy; he doesn't let himself fall back on his story's inherent interest and flow. Like James Clavell, he displays a wonderful "can't put it down" sense of narrative. In a nervous, frustrating tale, Thompson is at ease, carefully building the tension and...