Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high a price for modern medicine is too high a price? There is, as usual, no clear answer. The problem itself reflects a paradox best stated by French Novelist André Malraux: "A human life is worth nothing, but nothing is worth a human life...
...author is more than an adroit tale spinner; it is character, not accident or circumstance, that brings his central figures to grief. In the process, he merges Chicago myth, legend and history with poignant private truth. This journalist, at least, had not only a novel but a genuine novelist...
...alleged "Daddy Dearest," but don't listen to them. Home Before Dark might unearth some spicy secrets, but it is not sensational: and while it may occasionally embarrass some friends and relatives, it remains loving and sincere to the memory of America's great short story writer and novelist, John Cheever...
...author, a novelist when closer to home (The Eye of the Beholder, Byzantine Honeymoon), suits up in deflective irony for a different game: to produce a travel book with the confident style of the 19th century and the elegiac soul of a modern spiritual nomad. Glazebrook's reflections on the past are a form of detachment as real as the thousands of miles between him and his family in Dorset. Writing about other travel writers distances him from his own encounters on the trail. By ranking subjectivity above literal facts, he finally removes himself to that lonely height where...
...mountain passages of this part of the world were like the bloody birth canals of civilization. Today Glazebrook finds mostly shards and indifferent descendants. Like VS. Naipaul, the best of contemporary novelist-travel writers, he takes a melancholy view of lands that are past their primes. In the city of Kenya he discovers a universal shabbiness imposed by the use of concrete: "The Asiatics' love of bright colors, too, is betrayed by the plastic paint they slap on everywhere, which flakes and peels as the colors of their native fabrics and tiles never did." A few passages border...