Word: fictions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This dual publication appears to be as reckless as it is immodest. In 99 Novels: The Best in English Since 1939, Britain's Anthony Burgess sets up a personal pantheon of later 20th century fiction; then, in Enderby's Dark Lady, or No End to Enderby, he offers the latest sample of his own handiwork in that line...
Associate Professor of Sociology Paul E. Starr yesterday received the Pulitzer Prize for son-fiction...
...prize is awarded annually to a distinguished American author of non-fiction, said Robert C. Christopher, administrator of the Pulitzer Prize, explaining that the prime considerations are literary quality and originality...
Starr has written The Discarded Arms, a book about Vietnam veterans, in addition to his prizewinning work, along with several other works of non fiction and over 40 articles and columns...
...continued in The Unbearable Lightness of Being, which seems at first simply a replication of The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. Again, the Soviet crackdown becomes a watershed in the experience of Kundera's people, making the past irretrievable and the future ominous. Again, the author divides his fiction into seven parts. This time, though, the connections between them are firmer. Four main characters keep reappearing, and their lives, though not always displayed chronologically, assume the extended contours of traditional love stories...