Word: fictions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fascinating essay, she frankly describes her own growth, paying tribute to her roots and discussing the writing of her Pulitzer-prizewinning novel The Color Purple. Those who first come to know Walker through this remarkable piece of fiction will be delighted by her lucid and insightful essays, which are infused with as much warmth and wisdom as her fiction, but moreover reveal a Walker that differs appreciably from the groping, just-awakening character of The Color Purple's Celie...
...novel is richer for its reaching out. He claims throughout that the book is not open-ended. But were it in fact closed, its source of vitality would disappear. Even in the story's framework. Donoso questions the validity of his assertion that art is only artifice. Facades of fiction continuously shatter, and the characters reconstruct them each time. Eventually it becomes impossible to distinguish lies from truth, fiction from reality...
...m.p.h., the speed of the shuttle, the two free floaters became the first human satellites of the earth. Never before had astronauts or cosmonauts, in dozens of space walks, ventured forth without a lifeline. Only a remarkable jet-powered backpack, which looked like castoff hardware from a science-fiction film, kept the walkers from drifting off into the cosmos. As Shuttle Commander Vance Brand, 52, put it, "They call each other Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers...
...FICTION: The Anatomy Lesson, Philip Roth ∙The Collected Stories of Colette, edited by Robert Phelps Life and Times of Michael K, J.M. Coetzee ∙Pitch Dark, Renata Adler The Salt Line, Elizabeth Spencer Shame, Salman Rushdie...
...general. Opponents worried about inappropriate academic acceleration that inevitably results when pushy parents, precocious children, and higher learning institutions join forces. Fortunately, with the mushrooming of advanced placement programs nationwide and increasing research on how to deal with gifted youngsters, the myth of the neglected gifted student is more fiction that fact. And though public education, particularly in inner city schools, has fallen victim to President Reagan's band-aid educational policies, magnet schools and other specialized programs offer talented students an alternative to accelerated education...