Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the plot format he first laid down. This methodical grinding out of thrillers has made him the best-selling French author ever, a kind of freak of technique in the publishing world, and has earned him millions. But, quite unexpectedly in 1973, he announced he would retire from fiction to work, as he put it, on "autobiographical and confessional reminiscences...
...year-old Mengele out of shady retirement to play a grotesque caricature of himself. As he did in Rosemary's Baby, Levin bases his new plot on a perversion of planned parenthood. This time the mumbo jumbo of the occult has been replaced by the gizmos of science fiction...
...somewhat too prodigious Joyce Carol Gates, 37, whose fiction has exploded with gunshots, stabbings and bombings, also sets off booby traps in the mind. Her seventh novel is a meditation on assassination and the violence that lodges in the American heart. This is her roughest, most repetitious read, yet it is difficult to suggest a briefer way to tell such a complex tale...
Whitman said the press intends to publish an anthology of undergraduate fiction, a book on French gestures by Laurence C. Wylie, C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France, and Rick Stafford, a photographer for the University News Office, and a guide for job-hunting entitled, "Is There Life After Harvard...
That is pure fiction and simple inattention to detail. As Chavez says (on page 212) someone gave him a cane, "and by the time we got to Modesto where I celebrated my birthday on the fifteenth day of the march, I was okay...