Word: fictions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those who have not yet discovered the work of Elizabeth Jolley might well start with this novel. For one thing, it is brief, deceptively simple, eccentric and entirely in keeping with the comic, macabre nature of her best fiction. And it is nice to know that there is more where this comes from. The Newspaper of Claremont Street is the eighth Jolley book, including six other novels and a collection of stories, to be released in the U.S. in the past three years. Prior to 1984, she was one of Australia's best-kept literary secrets. Now her international reputation...
...nursing, door-to-door sales, occasional stints of domestic service and eventually writing. Along the way, she seems to have developed a sense of what loneliness and isolation can do, even to the most simple, hardworking folk. Such people, earnest and a little unhinged, began popping up in her fiction: a spinster trying to manage a remote farm, a young female helper and a bizarre secret concealed on the premises (The Well); an old man dreaming up plans to disrupt the nursing home into which he has been dumped (Mr. Scobie's Riddle...
...This kind of cultural exchange can inspire insights about the purpose of American fiction," said Annie Macoby '87, who helped organize the reading...
About 20 students have banded together under the auspices of the Harvard-Radcliffe Science Fiction Association [SFA], which went defunct in 1984. Their purpose, they say, is to get everyone to recognize the great service The Doctor has rendered to earthlings over the past twenty-four years...
...hated Science Fiction until sixth grade,when someone introduced me to Madeleine L'Engle's[a popular children's science fiction author]work," Demitrio said. "Then I read all her work inthe next three days, without eating or sleeping...