Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Partners, Louis Auchincloss could not be plainer about how he operates within his chosen limits. His 20th work of fiction, the book is not truly a novel but a set of stories loosely linked by principal characters who happen to be members of the same Wall Street law firm. Each incidental anecdote and character sketch is arranged to show how time and change have affected the values and manners of Auchincloss's narrowing circle...
...Nonsense," expostulated the consulting detective. "I annihilated the Napoleon of crime at the Reichenbach Falls. No, no, Watson, heroes may be summoned from the annals of fiction, but this villain rises from reality. Whoever made those erasures is an intelligent, living, breathing human. Well, living and breathing, anyway...
Engagingly enough, the first new bestselling work of fiction in the U.S. for the new year of 1974 turns out to be a fine, small, odd book set in a Canadian Indian village. It was written more than eight years ago, and considering the delay, one might assume that the manuscript, scribbled by some tribal chieftain, had perhaps moldered under a totem pole until discovered by a nosy anthropologist or Royal Canadian Mountie. Not so. The author is an energetic, white-haired American woman, now 72, named Margaret Craven. The history of her book, from benign neglect to some national...
Boiled Candlefish. The device that transforms the book into fiction is rude enough. Everything that Margaret Craven swiftly experienced and loved about the Kwakiutls is gradually learned by a young Anglican vicar, Mark Brian. He is fatally ill but does not know it, and has been sent to the village by his bishop to "learn enough of life to be ready to die." Much of Mark's story is presented as a marvelously compact and compelling semidocumentary. The reader meets the old and the young of the village, learns that much of the tribe's food is customarily...
Unlike Playgirl, much of the sexual excitement in Viva is provided by showcasing naked or half-dressed women. The pornographic highlights include seamy fiction (one story describes the year and a half seduction of an Asian girl by her slowmoving (?) husband), photographic love stories (explict spreads of couples unmistakably enjoying foreplay and intercourse), more photographs of either seductive ethereal females or their male counterparts and, last but not least, a smattering of male sex fantasies...