Word: novel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Look Homeward, Angel. Ketti Frings's Pulitzer Prize and Critics Award winner, less bulky and autobiographical than Thomas Wolfe's parent novel and more the portrait of a memorable family, at once riveted and riven...
...Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak. Russia's greatest living poet has written Russia's greatest novel since the Revolution...
Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov. A brilliantly written novel, lyrical, hilarious and horrifying, about a middle-aging émigré's love for a "nymphet...
This odd contrast of styles has a crippling effect on Salamanca's torrential first novel, which carries Jim Blackstarr from his fourth to his 17th year in and around Charlottesville, Va. The book is drunk on nature, the round of the seasons, the beauty of women. Whatever lucky Jim wants in females he gets, whether it is Neighbor Betty Lee, whose "cool firm thighs were like two great silver carp," or Cousin Nory, whose thighs, "with their milk-white, melon-firm flesh, struck his mind with ruinous astonishment." or Schoolteacher Irene, whose thighs are "like moist and mobile alabaster...
...Here you are," Vicomte de Valmont, the roué hero of an 18th century novel, chimed in benignly...