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...First Novelist Goodman fictionalizes this authentic American romance from its heady undergraduate days to the mournful playing of Nearer, My God, to Thee in a rainy French graveyard. In the process he anatomizes the fatal innocence that accepted the conflict over there as an extension of the field and the rink. Goodman's debt to The Great Gatsby is manifest: his narrator, Jeb Runcible, regards his classmate much as Nick Carraway viewed Jay Gatsby. But the author's voice is his own, and as Jeb becomes progressively disenchanted, the golden pilot goes into a nose dive, changing from superhero...
...refused repatriation and found his way to France, where he worked as a choir director, translator and, eventually, journalist. It was during an interview in 1954 with Roman Catholic Novelist Francois Mauriac that literature took an abrupt turn...
Trying to convert the past into fiction is no small act of faith either. The historical novelist must believe that he can be adequately inspired by old documents when, in fact, his imagination is better served by direct experience. Moore cites as his sources eyewitness reports and church records used by 19th century Historian Francis Parkman for his classic The Jesuits in North America. The novelist does not mention that it is hard to improve on this enthralling narrative, with its zealous clerics snatching souls from "the fangs of the 'Infernal Wolf' " and its droll view of the New World...
Boyer, a mystery novelist, and Savageau, a relocation consultant, worked for 16 months to track down and verify new statistics. "Every call to a government agency," says Savageau, "uncovered ten other statistics we could use." The authors also devised their own formulas. To gauge climate, for example, they developed a complex scheme relating relative humidity to seasonal variations in temperature. To update the 1980 census, they turned to such sources as IRS change-of-address lists. One discovery: the Sunbelt may have oversold its desirability. Address changes for the past two years show % the Northeast has been gaining population while...
...offended party in a plagiarism scandal. That was in 1980 when a young American writer named Jacob Epstein confessed that he had not sufficiently "originalized" whole passages from Amis' first novel, The Rachel Papers, before incorporating them into his own fictional debut, Wild Oats. Now the son of British Novelist Kingsley Amis (Lucky Jim, One Fat Englishman) is back with a splash. Money: A Suicide Note is one of those infrequent novels that should divide readers into admirers and detractors, with little room for neutrality. The book even comes with a bit of extraliterary irony. While his father's novel...