Word: fictions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pieces dates from 1972. Nonetheless, many of these 26 works by Gabriel Garcia Márquez, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature, will seem shiny and fresh to everyone but dedicated students of South American literature. The bulk of Garcia Márquez's short fiction was written before his novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, which was published in Spanish in 1967 and in English three years later. That outlandish, exuberant chronicle of a tragicomically doomed family won its author the worldwide acclaim he continues to receive. Collected Stories offers an earlier portrait of the artist...
...comfortable home in Connecticut to a Greenwich Village pad. He can't write in the burbs, can't stand the entanglement. Can he write in the Village? Well, he's trying, but his roiling thoughts won't order themselves tamely and obediently into fiction. There he sits at his desk, staring idly out of the window, listening to his middle-aged frame creak, finding a suspicious bump on his scrotum, brooding about traditional marriage: "battling, shrieking and occupying each other's brains like some terrible tumor until one of them dies." A theme here? Apparently...
Coppola and fellow screen writers Mario Puzo and William Kennedy present a mixture of fact and fiction as they center their story on Dixie Dwyer (Richard Gere), a coronet player, who becomes entangled in racketeering riff-raff after he saves the life of arch- mobster Dutch Schultz. The Dutchman hires Dyers to entertain his mistress Vera Cicero (Diane Lane), and the two, unfortunately for the Dutchman fall in love. Vera, however, sticks with the mobster because of his promise to buy her her own nightclub. Meanwhile back at the ranch. Dixie's brother Vince becomes embroiled in New York...
...earthquake or the end of the world. As word of the cloud of poison began to spread, hundreds, then thousands, took to the road in flight from the fumes. In cars and rickshaws, on foot and bicycles, residents moved as fast as they could. As in some eerie science-fiction nightmare, hundreds of people blinded by the gas groped vainly toward uncontaminated air or stumbled into one another in the darkness. Others simply collapsed by the side of the road in the crush. At least 37 people who had inhaled the fumes died hours later from the effects, having reached...
...restless memories and long shadows. The vet lies in bed, next to his wife, staring at the ceiling, his hands paralyzed, terrified of the darkness and the narrow future ahead of him. There have been a number of fine books written about Viet Nam, but so far music beats fiction in getting to the quick of things. That seems totally appropriate to a so-called rock-'n'-roll war. Perhaps an enterprising producer might put together an album anthology of a dozen of the best Viet Nam songs (Run Through the Jungle, Fortunate Son, Still in Saigon...