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...comfortable rotundity settled deep in the softest armchair of his Milan living room. Yet the 73-year-old academic and author, condemned to international celebrity by his 1980 debut novel The Name of the Rose, is not without thorns. Today's discourse - ranging from his newest work of fiction, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, to politics, religion and neckties - bristles with sharp observations. Avuncular he may seem, but this famous European intellectual has not mellowed with age. Age, memory and nostalgia are, however, the central themes of Queen Loana, Eco's fifth novel, just published in English translation. Struck...
...years, British mini-series from venerable fiction have been packaged in the U.S. in a series called Masterpiece Theatre. Merchant-Ivory films, exhibiting the same good breeding and measured pacing, became known as Masterpiece Cinema. The epithet was derisive, but it carried an implicit acknowledgment that the noble lineage of stiff-upper literature was now wholly in the care of the boy from Bombay, the kid from Oregon and the Polish-German lady who'd married an Indian. Merchant, Ivory and Prawer Jhabvala were like the servants who'd been bequeathed a ducal castle just as its ramparts were crumbling...
...Scottoline's other books, the writing is brisk and sassy, right at the intersection of the law genre and women's fiction. Vicki and Reheema make a sharp, urban Thelma and Louise. The story swings from the gritty to the grand, always with lawyerly attention to detail. "It's Philadelphia," Scottoline explains. "It's not a fake place. There's real police procedure. There's real law. I have to follow...
Scottoline has earned the respect of the authors who dominate legal lit. "If I could be a partner in one of the fictional law firms that she has created, I'd sign up in a heartbeat," says star crime writer Linda Fairstein admiringly. Scottoline quibbles with the popular name for her craft. "I don't think I'm writing legal thrillers at all, and honestly, I hate the term," she says. "I'm writing stories about strong, funny, resourceful women who get themselves in and out of trouble by sheer dint of will and excessive amounts of heart, and these...
...against a setting sun, complete with puppy dog at their side. The book culminates in a true-life sports cliche as Nick goes up to bat for the team down by one in the bottom of the ninth with bases loaded and two outs in the championship game. Unlike fiction, the outcome makes little difference as Nick's father dies anyway, leaving Nick feeling deeply angry. In the book's preface, Nick Jeffrey wonders if this isn't the only "good" story he will ever tell. I doubt it. Though it could use some copyediting, and a bit more development...