Word: fiction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TROUT, by Elizabeth Bowen. This is a rare commodity on today's fiction market: a novel of sensibility. The story is about a wandering, capricious heiress in whose wake many lives bob helplessly...
...FICTION...
Women have always been masters at devastating domestic retort in art as well as life. Feminine sensibility in fiction is popularly supposed to deify feeling, but the better women novelists have customarily proved short on gush and coolly capable of dealing out the kind of cruel punishments that love gone wrong (or right) often seems to breed. It is hardly surprising, in this age when violence seems so fashionable, to find a handful of female writers, some celebrated, some not, skillfully spinning tales of love and death...
There are elements of a thriller in all Spark's fiction, and The Public Image is no exception. The mystery here lies in the recesses of Annabel's personality. "She had never been given to problems" and is slow to recognize catastrophe when it comes calling. But Billy and Luigi succeed in leaving the truth at her door. "We have some Vatican money in this movie, confidentially," purrs Annabel's practical Pygmalion. "The reaction to those letters would finish your movie career...
...author, a former journalist, is said to have been "a full-time member of the circle she re-creates so vividly," but her novel reads as if it had been re searched in back numbers of Modern Romances. All the women's-fiction cliches are present: men are "movie-hero tall and handsome"; there is nearly as much obstetrics as sex; crises arise from the misbehavior of children and the absence of husbands at birthday parties. Teddy White would never recognize the politics, although anybody over 13 should have no trouble recognizing the personnel...