Word: novelist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outset of Perjury, his exhaustive 1978 study of the Hiss-Chambers case (which concluded that Hiss was guilty), Historian Allen Weinstein cautions that the story's fantastic elements "might be better served by the attentions of a perceptive novelist." By the end of Concealed Enemies, the TV viewer may agree. -By Richard Zoglin
...character. One is left to ponder why Didion nudges the reader so, insisting that her story keeps getting away from her. The truth may be that she is reluctant to let go of it, and of times that were full of imaginative and moral possibilities for a novelist. An odd case of nostalgia but a sympathetic one. -By Martha Duffy
...eager to use Lazar as he is to use them. Mira, an old girlfriend, resumes a romance only to take back a now valuable piece from her early career as a sculptor. Michael, a lesbian, seduces Lazar in order to get him to read her screenplay. Sidney Stein, a novelist, invites Lazar to his home for dinner merely to lure him out into the woods and beat him up as revenge for double-dealing in a joint film project. Allen, a friend from youth, makes a homosexual pass and later tries to borrow $5,000. Even Lazar's rich...
STRATIS HAVIARAS brings to The Heroic Age the lyrical style, eye for the visual, and economic approach of a poet rather than a novelist. This should not be surprising. Haviaras has written both Greek and English poetry, and is the curator of the Woodberry poetry collection here at Harvard. His second novel. The Heroic Age, recounts the turbulent adolescence of a boy, Panagis, growing up in factious, post-World War II Greece...
...clinically, the legend has it; doctors brought him back from beyond the edge. Should have died, probably; his life since then has been a washout. This is not because of his injuries, which left a facial scar but did no other permanent damage. It is because, as Novelist Rosellen Brown sketches him, he is temperamentally unsuited to be anything but the star of a protest movement...