Word: fictions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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EDITOR'S CHOICE FICTION O-ZONE, Paul Theroux -- PECKHAM'S MARBLES, Peter De Vries -- PERFUME, Patrick Suskind -- THE PRINCE OF TIDES, Pat Conroy -- A SUMMONS TO MEMPHIS, Peter Taylor -- A TASTE FOR DEATH, P.D. James NONFICTION EISENHOWER: AT WAR 1943-1945, David Eisenhower -- GOING SOLO, Roald Dahl MY FATHER, MY SON, Admiral Elmo Zumwalt Jr. and Lieut. Elmo Zumwalt...
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FATE, CRUEL AND derisive, always seems to trap the errant. In the fiction of Nabokov, this fate is the will of the author who is empowered by his art to create his characters and coolly plan out their destinies. He operates them like marionettes, then drops their strings and watches them collapse. Thus he deals with the enchanter...
...Enchanter is hardly the "dead scrap" that Nabokov called it when he first wrote it in Paris. The short novel has the appeal of the author's distinct style. It demonstrates his method of patterning fiction which, in Nabokov's words, combines "the play of shadow and light on a live body, the harmony of trifles assembled...in a unique and inimitable...
Jerry Doolittle is an Expository Writing instructor and the author of four books, of which three are non-fiction. He was a speechwriter for both President Jimmy Carter and Democratic Presidential candidate Walter Mondale, and was a reporter for several daily newspapers. In 1971, he resigned as press attache in the United States Information Agency's Vientianne, Laos office in protest of American policy in that nation...