Word: fictions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...understanding that the inscription was a favorite passage of one of the Iranians. North, according to White House sources, has never been to Camp David. When the President was apprised of North's story by the Tower commission, he described the NSC aide's statements as an "absolute fiction...
Although it is called a novel, The Enigma of Arrival stretches the line between fiction and autobiography nearly to the vanishing point. The unnamed narrator is a writer in his mid-50s, an Indian and a Hindu, born in Trinidad, educated at Oxford, who has traveled extensively and lived most of his adult life in England. This person, in other words, is indistinguishable from V.S. Naipaul; and the personality, the tone of voice and cast of mind displayed here resemble the prose of Naipaul's nonfiction (Among the Believers; India: A Wounded Civilization) more closely than that of his other...
...standard of much current fiction, these events sound like small potatoes indeed, stuff to get out of the way before the corporate takeover or the bedroom marathon. But Naipaul manages to give each isolated incident the ! inevitability and gravity of history. The impression is not that so little happens in ten years but that a series of small upheavals so shake a tiny, isolated corner of the world. Having found, after some 40 years of struggle, his ideal landscape, Naipaul must watch its deterioration and decline. He can, within reason, be philosophical about this process, acknowledging that his sense...
...claims that the show is about America, not about the Soviet Union. "As a writer [Wrye] set out to write a fiction. It could just as well have been about lizards, except CBS did it already--it was called "V," said Butler...
...fiction factory of Bangor, Me., sometimes known as Stephen King, has just produced its first 1987 prototype. This is a small, youth-centered version of earlier vehicles capable of holding the whole family. It corners well and accelerates quickly. It has to: The Eyes of the Dragon is a medieval fantasy that drives over thin ice, and its strength is in its speed. Good Prince Peter is framed for regicide by Flagg, a wicked magician who could teach Merlin a few tricks. Once Peter is hauled away to a prison tower, Flagg's puppet, Thomas, rules with a combination...