Word: graveses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Having enlisted the audience's sympathies, and its knowing nods that the first playlet shows what life is really like, Sherman reveals in the second half that Table is not reality but invention -- the plot, in fact, of a famous '60s novel that a Hollywood producer proposes to contort into...
Tony Hillerman's thrillers are usually painstaking, almost anthropological efforts to plunge into the folkways and mind-sets of Native Americans, primarily Navajos. The crimes and solutions nearly always center on the clash of cultures, indeed of metaphysics, in the sparsely populated badlands of the Southwest. But Hillerman's latest...
With hindsight, it is easy to see why a slim, self-effacing Englishman named Thomas Edward Lawrence became one of this century's most ballyhooed celebrities. Out of the appalling carnage of World War I -- the mud-caked anonymity of the trenches, the hail of mechanized death that spewed from...
The winds of war whip briskly through this novel of the Philippines just before and during the Japanese occupation. Ralph Graves, who knew the islands as the teenage stepson of the U.S. High Commissioner during 1939-41, re- creates the prewar colonial atmosphere, the swift arrival of the enemy after...
Yes, the worker recalled, he had seen Kilroy, and pointed to a rust-colored wooden shed 400 yards away. There, under a gray, misty sky, the police made a ghastly discovery. In and around a corral, they found several makeshift graves; the overpowering stench of decaying flesh led to digging...