Word: fictions
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...novel continues the unsparing exploration of themes that run through all of Yamanaka's fiction as well as her poetry: family dysfunction, poverty and ostracism. In her previous works, these problems result directly from the persistent distrust within Hawaii's multiethnic population. In novels such as Blu's Hanging (1997) and Heads by Harry (1999), Yamanaka--a third-generation Japanese American raised on the island of Molokai--wrote dialogue in the pidgin English she spoke as a child, for which her characters are stigmatized, as she was herself. But in Father of the Four Passages, the blame for the family...
...time that DeLillo devotes to that opening breakfast can be retrospectively explained: these were the last moments that a wife, Lauren, shared with her husband. But little of what follows seems amenable to rational analysis. DeLillo is renowned for the haunting difficulties and complexities of his fiction, but the enigmas of The Body Artist suggest a new order of imponderables...
...Ulysses in print as publishers declare that in addition to being rife with vulgar language, the novel is big and complicated and filled with absurdist characters. Across the Atlantic, Moby Dick has bombed as critics still have not settled the debate on whether the novel is a work of fiction or actually whaling industry propaganda. Van Gogh has already committed suicide, no doubt driven to such despair because he could only manage to sell one painting. Dickens, meanwhile, is derided as pop-trash in literary circles because his work is that which suits the half-educated moron...
...randomly attacked my grandparents. It was such a painful event, I was surprised to find it in my thoughts a few years ago. Remembering it was really the beginning of the play. While I based the play on two true incidents, I chose to write it as a fictional story. I didn't want it to be a docudrama of my life, and writing as a fiction gave me a way to speak to something that belongs to all of us, something more profound, incorporating the idea of freedom and human dignity. So it's a fictional story...
...invading army of a movie crew occupies a Vermont town. Pinwheeling with the crackle and congestion of a Preston Sturges farce, Mamet's fastest, funniest script gives sharp lines ("That's not a lie; that's a gift for fiction") and wild invective ("I'm gonna tear out your heart and piss on your lungs through the hole in the chest") to a cast that feasts on the dialogue like an old-time studio boss on a starlet's plump naivete. Hail to Alec Baldwin, Sarah Jessica Parker, William H. Macy, Philip Seymour Hoffman, David Paymer and the other confectors...