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Edmund White was born in Cincinnati in 1940. After a childhood spent "painting and dancing and singing and generally being a nuisance," he decided to become a writer. His literary hero was Russian-born novelist Vladimir Nabokov, who, after reading White's first two books, proclaimed him his favorite American author. White's fiction, like Nabokov's, is marked by the combination of a baroque linguistic sensibility with a mordant picture of middle America. White says he has always written as "a representative member of my generation of gay men." That purpose has not limited his work, which ranges from...
...Novelist Block does a good, convincing job with Scudder and his puzzle, but comes up flat with the solution, which involves two unrelated coincidences. The two deaths on which the story pivots turn out to be essentially meaningless, and this may be closer to real life than a thriller plot can safely walk...
Although he won international acclaim as a novelist, Gabriel Garcia Marquez made his publishing debut with a book of short stories, and he has never abandoned the form. Strange Pilgrims (Knopf; 188 pages; $21), his fourth collection, proves again that the author's distinctive magic realism can come in relatively small containers. But it does so with a difference. These 12 stories take place far from the vivid South American settings of his other tales and novels, including One Hundred Years of Solitude (1970) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1988). In a prologue the 1982 Nobel laureate notes...
...never get back to normal because 'normal' is based on a whole set of global economic conditions that no longer apply." And that does not even take into account the relentless and accelerating pace at which technology is changing work as well as every other aspect of life. As novelist Thomas Wolfe (1930s, not 1960s, version) declared in one of his book titles, You Can't Go Home Again -- because home isn't there anymore...
...about the devastating effect a disturbed young woman has on her family, was bitter medicine; the movie double-dared its audience to find sympathy in its dour or manic characters. In An Angel at My Table (1990), a three-part mini-series based on the biographies of Australian novelist Janet Frame, Campion located her elliptical, microcosmic style. But % this lovely film lost its way before its climax, and before it could find a wider audience...