Word: fictions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this does not by any means imply that Moore's stories are grim tragedies or soggy domestic confessionals, however much her plots be the stuff of such woeful fiction. What makes this remarkably self-assured first collection so interesting is the tough bitingly funny humor of the narrative voice. the protagonists, with the exception of the child narrator of The Kid's Guide to Divorce," are all young, college-educated. But this is a protective device, as the husband of the protagonist in another story. "To Fill" says "Everything's a joke. You're always flip-flopping words, only listening...
...textiles and clothing. In addition, the report urges the start of a new series of world-trade talks. "We have tried to be realistic," said Fritz Leutwiler, former president of the Bank for International Settlements and chairman of the group. "We realize that 100% free trade will remain science fiction forever, but we think heads of government should not be paying lip service to free trade while building protectionism...
...FICTION: The Fifth Son, Elie Wiesel...
...FICTION...
...Joyce wanted to symbolize exile, he did it with a Jew, Leopold Bloom of Ulysses. American Jewish writers did not hesitate to import this conceit, making the Jew-as-outsider one of the durable cliches in the national literature. But the facts of life were quite different from the fiction of alienation. By the end of World War II, the sons and daughters of ghetto immigrants were well on their way to becoming deeply rooted members of the middle class. Their semiofficial arrival can be dated to 1955. That was the year Herman Wouk published Marjorie Morningstar, the best seller...