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...that Restic has a history to tell is like saying that Elvis was a rock musician, Ernest Hemingway was a novelist and Marilyn Monroe was a woman. Framed by the three formative events of his generation--The Great Depression, World War II and post-war prosperity--the myriads of interesting details in Restic's life make it prime movie material...
...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...
...Gone is some of his characteristic flamboyance. He almost appears to liberate himself from the magical realism which he left as legacy and burden to the writers of Latin America. He veers towards surrealism at times, and the influence of Kafka is quite noticeable, as are traces of Mexican novelist Juan Rulfo...
Edith Wharton is enjoying a hot season, 56 years after her death, that would be the envy of many a living novelist. Buoyed by Martin Scorsese's film, The Age of Innocence is the No. 1 paperback best seller. Sales of other Wharton titles have doubled, and three have been snapped up for possible films. As if | Wharton didn't write enough, her last, unfinished novel, The Buccaneers, has been completed (and, alas, flattened and sentimentalized) by scholar Marion Mainwaring (Viking; $22). It too has been optioned by Hollywood...
...field. And that's how I'd like to be read. People who enjoy a good read, people belonging to book clubs. Ladies in book clubs have written to me and that sort of thing, you know. I would certainly not like to be viewed as a post-colonial novelist, that would be absurd. I hope that I write in a way which would be true to all times...