Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wonders just what is fact or fiction in Horovitz's plays which contain large autobiographical sections. The most startling, in light of his non-existent Harvard career, is Act I, Scene 5 of a 1971 play entitled "Dr. Hero." The setting: a university board room with an admissions committee meeting in progress. Enter the protagonist, an unloved youth named Hero who will rise to the top using his pushy, arrogant, salesman-like personality. Hero is a college applicant, appearing before the admissions committee to be judged on a ludicrous basis--the ability to name ten Dickens's titles. Hero speaks...
...columnist of the Atlanta Constitution. Among the eventual plans of the American Revolutionary Army, said Murphy of his captors, was one "to engage in guerrilla warfare throughout the country." That may well have been their boastful balderdash and possibly no such group exists at all, except as a fiction to dress up a kidnaping for private gain. But the impact on the nation was none the less. Murphy was returned unharmed after 49 hours and two of his suspected kidnapers were promptly found and arrested, but the fate of Patricia Hearst remained agonizingly uncertain...
...ancient history to future history" which will end aboard a spaceship. Swearing off such distractions as TV appearances and journalistic ephemera, Mailer has retired to his Stockbridge, Mass., house to write the novel over the next few years. Commenting on the largest known sum paid for a work of fiction, New York Publisher Roger Straus said: "It's crazy...
...superb earlier novels (The First Cir cle, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and The Cancer Ward) were fiction alized reflections of that experience. In the first two parts of Gulag, however, he set out to document the entire range of horrors inflicted upon the Soviet people from 1918 to 1956. A 260,000-word mosaic, composed of personal reminiscences, interviews with survivors, and documents, Gulag lays out the intricate patterns of terror...
Liverpool Conrad. The narrow line between private reveries at the window and actually stepping over the sill threads subtly throughout the book. As in a great deal of good fiction, the novel grows out of character, not plot or theme. Those who have read any of Hanley's more than 40 other novels should not be surprised. At 73, he is one of the most consistently praised and least-known novelists in the English-speaking world. Born in Dublin and raised in Liverpool, Hanley became a merchant seaman at age 13, just before World War I. He is self...