Word: novelistically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SCUBA DUBA is a flagellatingly funny first play by Novelist Bruce Jay Friedman about an American screwball whose wife runs off with a Negro during a Riviera holiday. Jerry Orbach is jokingly brilliant as he indiscriminately sprays comic vitriol at countless pet hates. Brenda Smiley is a wriggly delight as a lass with a mini-mind and a Proustian remembrance of flings past...
...MANOR, by Isaac Bashevis Singer. A popular Yiddish storyteller proves that he also has the insights of a major novelist in this tragicomedy about the changes that wrench a Polish-Jewish family in the late 1800s...
...SLOW NATIVES, by Thea Astley. The saga of how an Australian family of intellectuals tests its illusions against a philistine society, told by a lively social satirist who may be her country's best woman novelist since Christina Stead...
...GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS, by Joyce Carol Gates. Miss Gates is a throwback to Dreiser-a realistic novelist, telling an old-fashioned story about a girl who puts success before virtue...
...hurled out-ahead of a counterattacking wave of soldiers vigorously wielding their weapons from port-arms. Handcuffs clicked as marshals corralled their captives, left behind in the abortive assault on the doors. Bloodstains clotted in rusty trails into the Pentagon, where prisoners had been dragged. Among them, uninjured, was Novelist Norman Mailer, who had tried to breach the police line after a wild buildup of booze and obscenity...