Word: fictions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week, a month, and know it fully, perfectly, turn it in one's fingers until all the lights had played upon its surfaces . . .) but because the facts and mysteries he encounters exceed his intentions. Or so he claims. When a friend suggests that history is a form of narrative fiction, Prentiss replies a little too glibly that "a taste for fiction has always seemed to me the unfailing mark of an imaginative deficiency...
...remark is that the speaker happens to be an innovative character in a historical novel of a high imaginative order. Flanagan, 64, a professor of English at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, first demonstrated his gift for evoking the past in the constant shimmer of good fiction eight years ago, when he published The Year of the French. The work received broad acclaim and was the National Book Critics Circle's choice as the best novel of 1979. It is a rich and complex telling of a rebellion on the west coast of Ireland, where...
...Fiction...
...COUNTERLIFE by Philip Roth. In a metaphysical thriller, Nathan Zuckerman, the author's durable doppelganger, once again becomes an instrument for examining the relationship between fact and fiction...
Oscar Wilde' s wit, pain and, yes, heroism shine through Richard Ellmann' s fine biography. -- The top fiction and nonfiction of the year...