Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Socialist I suspect.' Amusing for about a quarter of an hour." Here is Graham Greene delighted when a bomb from the blitz hits his house, symbolizing not only the end of his estate, but of his marriage; Arthur Koestler, "all antennae and no head," and Novelist Rose Macaulay "looking immensely aged, everything about her having diminished except her false teeth...
Silence fell over the Manhattan courtroom where Abbott is on trial on a charge of murdering Adan, 22, a waiter and an aspiring playwright, last July-a bare six weeks after Abbott had been released from prison on the urging of Novelist Norman Mailer. Not a cough sounded as Abbott, 37, gave some grisly details of the aftermath of the 5 a.m. stabbing outside the Bini-Bon restaurant where Adan had worked. Adan, Abbott related, "said, 'You didn't have to kill me.' He started going backward. From his face he looked like he was dead...
...second front in Bellow's war on cultural and intellectual nihilism. The scenes are set almost exclusively in Chicago and Bucharest, a disparity underscored by the line, "There was nothing too rum to be true." In fact, the book is largely based on a trip that the novelist and his wife made to Rumania a few years ago to visit her dying mother...
...dangerous and, at times, confusing to the reader. Buckley's narrative line has some loops and kinks. From a scene in which Oakes awaits sentence for espionage in Moscow, the book flashes back to Fascist Italy and fashionable Washington with a romantic side trip to Bermuda. Buckley the novelist, unlike Buckley the columnist and lecturer, is not out to score debating points. But there are some targets of opportunity that are too juicy to overlook. An American Communist lawyer, representing a captured Soviet spy, aggressively defends his client's civil rights in a manner that bespeaks contempt...
...naturalist and a novelist take wise, winning looks at existence...