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...YEARS, BRITISH NOVEList A.N. Wilson has published 22 books -- and not in just one or two genres. Finish his excellent biography, say, of Tolstoy or C.S. Lewis, and there's a new novel out. After that, a collection of outrageous opinions about the royal family hits the shelves...
...Novelist Henry Roth breaks a 60-year silence...
Marius is an accomplished writer and novelist,most recently of the critically acclaimed Afterthe War. He has authored textbooks on writingas well as a biography of Thomas More. He alsowrites "The Browser," a books column for HarvardMagazine...
Edmund White's Genet: A Biography (Knopf; 728 pages; $35) faces the problem of any book that would take the measure of a writer who so resoundingly fictionalized his own life. How can mere truth compete? White comes to his subject with the advantages of a gay novelist (A Boy's Own Story, The Beautiful Room Is Empty) and the author of thoughtful reportage about gay life (States of Desire) -- both roles in which he would have confronted Genet's compelling and problematic example long before he came to him as a biographer. Suitably equipped, White connects the facts...
...confinement his gifts were set free. Life on the outside unsettled him. He lived in hotels, traveling constantly and falling for good-looking straight ! guys or hustlers who knew an open wallet when they saw one. In the mid-1950s, after a long depression, Genet the confessional novelist re-emerged as a playwright consumed by public issues. In The Balcony and The Blacks he reworked his old obsession with power relations into taunting parables about race, social caste and colonialism. The Paris premiere of The Screens, with its veiled attack on the French suppression of Algeria, set off a week...