Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FICTION...
...against each other; as he records the radical shifts in their emotional climate, the changes can be felt like heat or sleet. Blade of Light is both more powerful and more controlled than Hard Rain Falling. A calculated, mood-ridden shocker, it is that relatively rare product in contemporary fiction: a strong second novel...
...voracious reader of everything from Shakespeare to detective fiction -which he uses to "turn off"-Gilmore has managed to become a recognized authority on the Byzantine period. His psychiatrist wife-the mother of their two grown children-owns a superb 600-piece collection of Japanese art. For all that peripheral culture, however, he is not much good at small talk; when he entertains, he especially likes to have students over in an effort to get closer to what they are thinking...
...avoid exposure as a homosexual? If not, why did he spend so many nights in a certain apartment with a university professor? If President Roudebush knows the answer, he isn't talking-not even to Press Secretary Eugene Culligan, the narrator of this latest example of presidential pulp fiction...
Publishers flooded the market with more than 30,000 fiction and nonfiction titles during the past year. Inevitably, many worthwhile volumes were passed over by readers and critics, TIME'S reviewers included. Some of the books deserving a second look...