Word: novelists
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...Novelist Andre Brink (Knowledge of the Night), some of whose work has been banned in South Africa, agrees: "If faced with the ultimate choice between sharing and going under, the Masada complex need not prevail. There is still a chance -- small and diminishing rapidly -- of entering into the kind of dialectic with the present which may open up the future." Frederik van Zyl Slabbert was leader of the official opposition, the Progressive Federal Party, until he resigned in disgust last year, so his criticisms are hardly new. But he is also a former professor of sociology and thus well tuned...
...Author Mary McCarthy, 74, seems in the mood to celebrate herself, she has probably earned that indulgence. For some 50 years she has reigned as the irruptive dark lady of American letters, a ferocious critic of everything from theater and books to U.S. society and foreign policy; a novelist (The Group, The Groves of Academe) with a reputation for settling scores by turning enemies into thinly disguised fictions. Hence, perhaps, the hint of smugness in the title she has chosen for the first volume of her projected autobiography. How I Grew has nothing to do with its subject's physical...
...before Rybakov could tackle it, he built a successful career as a children's novelist, winning praise for his first novel, The Dirk, in 1950 and following it with a sequel, The Bronze Bird, in 1956. Next came two more teen stories, The Adventures of Krosh and Krosh's Vacation, written in the early 1960s...
WALKER PERCY is arguably the greatest living Southern novelist. His canon is as solid as any contemporary American's, north or south of the Mason-Dixon. The Moviegoer, Percy's first and best novel, received the National Book Award in 1962 and the works that followed--The Last Gentleman, Love in the Ruins, Lancelot, and The Second Coming--established a critical and commercial cult following that was, and is, highly deserved...
...McMurtry's eleventh novel, and by now his wonderfully loose- jointed narrative style slips in and out of comic exaggeration with practiced ease. There are no seams between the ambling lies of the 19th century frontier yarn spinner (his literary heritage) and the slick ambiguities of the 20th century novelist. When the tall tales have room to unwind to the horizon, as they do in Lonesome Dove (1985), McMurtry's haunting legend of the last cattle drives, the result is extraordinary. This sort of storytelling works best with a lot of action, however, and the new novel describes...