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Created by Flora M'Mbugu-Schelling. "Shida and Matatizo" blends fact and fiction in a docudrams examining the abuses of child labor. She criticizes the Tanzanian government for refusing to respond to the epidemic problerr of street children who are forced into expletive situations of mental, physical and sexual abuse...
...much of Christian fiction's bread and butter is spread by women. Janette Oke, often called the grandmother of the field, began writing her simple, God-fearing narratives--Ariana has many sisters--in 1979 and is still going strong (more than 13 million sales of 33 adult books...
There's not much point in reading Evangelical fiction unless you are reasonably interested in the Bible. It is a leading character in every book: the simple Ariana endures her imprisonment by learning it; a sophisticated Senator has it always at hand (in Colson's novel), as does a Lakers basketball star (in Robertson's). A disproportionate number of good men happen to be carpenters. Prayer, usually printed in italics, abounds. Many narratives grind to a halt for thinly disguised Bible classes. Robertson pads his story this way. Phrases like "jump down to verses twelve and thirteen" thud into conversation...
...house near Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Like most successful Christian novelists, he practices what he preaches as a devout Evangelical. "Part of being a Christian is that you share your faith," he says. "My writing is message centered." However, Peretti has brought his genre closer to mainstream pop fiction. For The Oath, Word, his new publisher, brought in "a New York editor," and the effort shows in the density and pacing of the plot...
...Abares who had heroically resisted atrocities carried out by the Bulgarians]: "Candide made all the haste he could to another village, which belonged to the Bulgarians, and there he found that the heroic Abares had enacted the same tragedy.'' This great work of 1759 satire might have been fiction, but current news items reveal the same facts in today's wars. HARRIETT J. CLAXTON, Dublin, Georgia...