Word: memoir
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...novel" here simply means "fictional memoir," a warning that the events of real life have been rearranged, Battlefields rings clear and true. It is worth noting that what is most memorable in Nyiri's account is not the war's horrors or the coldhearted hypocrisy of the "Jewish laws" enforced by authorities in Budapest to appease the Germans and deal with the "Jewish question." It is the unsinkable humanity of his characters. Most of them aren't especially noble or heroic, but they are full of life, an important quality in a time of extermination...
...hood playing out the role of dashing outlaw that had eluded him in his youth. His oddest film was 1981's My Dinner with Andre, a 110-minute conversation in which two friends wrestle with transcendent issues and nouvelle cuisine. But Malle called Au Revoir les Enfants (1987)--a memoir of his days at a Catholic school that concealed Jewish children from the Nazis--"the one film I would like to be remembered...
...cross MIKE WALLACE in print, don't go anywhere near his turf. The gruff correspondent has been incensed by comments about himself and 60 Minutes in a new memoir by former White House flack MARLIN FITZWATER. Last week he learned that Fitzwater was preparing to tape an episode of Politically Incorrect in a leased cbs studio. After haranguing Fitzwater on the phone, Wallace turned up in person and, generously sprinkling his speech with obscenities, demanded a public apology. Fitzwater refused. And after Wallace finally left, Fitzwater left too, saying he was too flustered to go on with the show...
...Schoen, a Yiddish ditty infused with the giddy, jivey spirit that followed G.I.s around the globe. Wartime hits included Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy (1941) and Rum and Coca-Cola (1944). The 1967 death of LaVerne ended the Andrews Sisters' career--but not Maxene's. She went solo, wrote a memoir and recently helped veterans celebrate the 50th anniversary of a war she and her sisters had made slightly easier for Americans to endure...
...secrets are as various as the exorcists. In The Blue Suit: A Memoir of Crime, just published by Houghton Mifflin (216 pages; $19.95), Richard Rayner, a British writer now living in Los Angeles, tells of how, while a Cambridge University undergaduate in the 1970s, he drifted into a yearlong crime spree of shoplifting, check forgery, housebreaking and bank fraud--following the mysterious disappearance of his father, who had been sent to jail for embezzlement. The writing is stripped-down Dostoyevsky ("My head itched. Cold sweat ran down my flesh...."), the overall effect as unnerving and oddly exhilarating as the life...