Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...REMAINS OF THE DAY by Kazuo Ishiguro (Knopf; $18.95). It is 1956, and an aging English butler looks back on his decades of service in a stately house. The meaning of his memories is not always clear to him, but it is to the reader, thanks to Japanese-born novelist Ishiguro's deadly, deadpan dissection of the British class system...
...earth shakes and rolls under my feet," shrugs novelist Wallace Stegner, a 40-year resident of Los Altos Hills. "It's never particularly alarmed me." Brokers insist that San Francisco's booming real estate market has not subsided. "Obviously the quake was a drawback," concedes Katherine August of First Republic Bancorp, which specializes in loans for luxury homes. "But I don't think it will have a lasting effect on the market. We closed one deal the day after the quake." Says pollster Mervin Field: "Sure it shook people up. But look at the World Series game that was interrupted...
Yael Dayan, novelist, journalist and the daughter of former Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, and Hanan Mikhael-Ashrawi, a crusader for equal rights for women in the Palestinian movement, debated the best process to achieve peace between Palestinians and Israelis in front of a large audience at the Agassiz Theatre...
AUGUST SNOW. Revered novelist Reynolds Price debuts a trilogy at the Cleveland Play House (titles of the other works: Night Dance and Better Days...
...already been felt. The starched tablecloths and silver on the Canadian have long since disappeared from the dining car, and the salmon dinner has lately been spawned in a microwave. And yet the romance lingers. "The train is what welded a widespread and thinly populated nation together," says Canadian novelist W.O. Mitchell, who rode the freights across his native prairies during the Great Depression. "I don't guess that's too relevant now with air travel and cars and television, but it doesn't change my sadness at seeing what's happening...