Word: novelistically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kwei Armah, 28, is a young Ghanaian novelist whose heart breaks in a jerry-built hell of token down payments on infinite desires. The saving grace for readers is that Harvard-educated Armah is an artist right to his sizzling nerve ends. In this brilliant little novel, he takes the small, smoldering resentments of West Africa's perennially shortchanged people and explodes them into a crackling protest against the whole of human suffering...
...ADORE him," declares Melina Mercouri. "He knows how to cry." Says Angela Lansbury: "He has antennae most people haven't even heard of." Others are more to the point. "If I had an affair with Jack the Ripper," sighs Valley of the Dolls Novelist Jacqueline Susann, "the offspring would be Rex Reed...
...near-toadying to friends, the relentlessness toward enemies-there runs a thread of consistency. He has been the inveterate foe of powerful and protected interests that have overreached themselves. This crusade is much in evidence in Pearson's first novel. The Senator, written with an assist from Novelist Gerald Green (The Last Angry Man), to be published this month. Its hero-villain is a walking compendium of all the sins that Pearson sees committed in Congress. Rich enough to begin with (a construction magnate worth at least $150 million), the hero is a willing and corrupt tool of Conglomerate...
ENDERBY, by Anthony Burgess. In this retouching of an earlier portrait of the artist as a middle-aged gasbag, the gifted English novelist combines the elements of entertainment and enlightenment with uncommon artistry...
...though, while playing an uncommitted delegate wooed by party girls at a hotel pool, Art got off his best line: "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the cabana." ABC scheduled nightly debates between the self-styled "Odd Couple," Conservative Editor William Buckley Jr. and Novelist Gore Vidal, whose latest book is the sex farce, Myra Breckinridge. The confrontation was diverting as an exhibition of personal antagonism, but the political issues were almost entirely lost in the scuffle. A sample exchange...