Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hands of the other lady, Sanditon inevitably becomes something different, more a romance than a novel, more a fairy tale than a quietly satirical exposition of the familiar and the real. "Readers will find here a refreshing change from the violence and general gloom that pervades so much modern fiction." Sanditon's inside leaf tells us indeed they will--Sanditon is certainly entertaining and has the great virtue of ending happily. But they will not find Jane Austen...
...seems unpromising material for a novel, and the author's plot is apparently more suited to pulp melodrama than to serious fiction. Her book begins with a young black woman improbably named Ursa Corregidora and plunks her down in a seedy Kentucky dive in the 1940s where she works as a blues singer. Enter Ursa's jealous husband, Mutt Thomas, who hurls the heroine down a staircase, injuring her so badly that her womb has to be removed. Twenty years pass. Ursa's second marriage fails. Her career takes her no higher than another dive across town...
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MICHAEL ROTHSCHILD has a button on his telephone so that he can turn off the ring when he's working. Rothschild writes fiction, in his isolated house in Strong. Maine, and if you call him while he's writing, the phone just rings and rings without getting picked up because he's got the button on and doesn't hear anything. If you're press and happen to call when Rothschild has wandered into his kitchen for coffee and momentarily turned the button off, he still isn't exactly dying to talk. The press is just another mechanical intrusion...
...statement released by James Q. Wilson, chairman of the Government Department, the senior members of the department were said to have taken note of "various allegations" that Kearns "was not the sole author of the manuscript" by an apparent reference to editorial assistance Kearns received from Michael Rothschild, a fiction writer, for about...