Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ADMITTEDLY, there is a difference between writing a spy novel as a spy novelist and writing a spy novel as a journalist. Brinkley's style is at times too dry, and while the political and psychological aspects of his characters are brilliantly conceived, they lack a personal perspective...
Goodman portrays in "Wish List" the passionate and literary obsession of a female Israeli novelist for a beautifully built worker who can only respond to her allusions to D.H. Lawrence novels with a request for some eggs...
...this point Lodge simply pulls an ending out of a hat--every one gets saved. The novel simply falls back on what Robyn describes as the standard solutions of the Victorian novelist: legacy, marriage, emigration and death...
...much the way it went with him thereafter. There was nothing he couldn't write, so there was nothing he didn't write. Preoccupied by productivity and the demands of his life- style, he had no time left to develop the guiding vision of self and world a major novelist needs...
Vidia, as he is known to friends, operates at a high level of stress. It may be genetic, he suggests, sadly recalling that his brother Shiva, the novelist and journalist, wrote him shortly before he died of a heart attack three years ago at the age of 40 that "anxiety was his truest feeling." Apprehension also comes with the territory. Naipaul was born an outsider 56 years ago in the British colony of Trinidad. A member of neither the white ruling class nor the black majority, he was part of the island's large, self-contained Indian community...