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SALMAN ("DON'T GIVE OUT MY ROOM NUMBER") RUSHDIE AGE: 50 OCCUPATION: Long-winded novelist BEST PUNCH: In the Guardian, Rushdie, still upset that Le Carre wondered if stores shouldn't carry his book for fear of bombings, called him "an illiterate pompous...
JOHN ("I MISS THE COLD WAR") LE CARRE AGE: 66 OCCUPATION: Snooty spy novelist BEST PUNCH: Le Carre, who originally wrote the Guardian to defend himself against anti-Semitism charges, retorted that Rushdie was "self-canonizing" and "arrogant...
DIED. LEON FORREST, 60, ambitious novelist whose stream-of-consciousness works explored black history; of cancer; in Evanston, Ill. Forrest traversed generations to examine slavery in The Bloodworth Orphans; in his masterwork, Divine Days, he devoted 1,138 pages to a week on Chicago's South Side...
Americans will promptly notice a British accent in Mortimer's writing. Novelist Felix Morsom inhabits a world of prawns and wireless sets and lorries painted carmine, where children do their prep every night for school and where adults have sexual connection. The distinction between a barrister and a solicitor and other niceties of the English legal system, which play a rather prominent role in the latter part of the book, can also be confusing to the uninitiated on the other side of The Pond, but no cultural barriers can mitigate the horror of the nightmarish side of London suddenly exposed...
DIED. HAROLD ROBBINS, 81, narcissistic novelist whose smutty potboilers mirrored his rags-to-riches life; in Palm Springs, Calif. On a wager, Robbins wrote Never Love a Stranger (1948), the first of 23 books that sold 750 million copies worldwide. (See Eulogy below...