Word: fiction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FICTION...
...mounted on the shoulders of another. Abe Fortas (left background) got in because "his head reminded me of my father." So did Fannie Hurst (right background), because "she looked like my Aunt Mamie." Kanovitz himself plays the role of "proud papa," shown dancing with his wife. If factual fiction, the picture is visually true, a frozen tableau of modern life...
Until the 20th century came along, few communities of a few thousand men could have lived so foul a life as did the first white men in Sydney. By Keneally's fictional talent, all is made vivid as fresh blood; the reader is spared the statistical compilations of realist fiction. Yet, we learn in the course of this cruel narrative that a sentence of death by torture (500 lashes of the cat-o'-ninetails amounted to just that) could be handed out by a kangaroo court of Marine officers as casually as a parking fine would be imposed...
...prosody is still somewhat imitative, and his rhymes are occasionally a little flat. Nonetheless, McCarthy must be reckoned a talented poet. Like Benjamin Disraeli, who titillated England with a long series of romantic novels, his art takes added interest from his position. And like Disraeli, who continued to write fiction even while he was Prime Minister, a President McCarthy might find that power would necessarily lead him into...
Nevertheless, Nicolson's perceptive daily jottings about places he visited and people he met assure him a position in British letters that he never achieved with his 34 books of history, biography, fiction, essays and travelogues. This final, posthumous volume, edited by his son Nigel, offers a beguilingly human account of the tremendous social changes that swept Britain so painfully after World...