Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Near the end of the novel, Turow reveals the stunning yet plausible connection between these two seemingly unrelated storylines. Resisting the pitfall of many a mystery novelist, Turow does not rely too much on coincidence. The connection is also plausible largely because Turow remains true to his characters...
...editors plan to run domestic and international news, profiles and reviews, as well as fiction by established writers, and several intriguing new features, including Ecofeminism and Inner Space. Among notable pieces in the first issue are a well-reported article on women in Eastern Europe, a new poem by novelist Toni Morrison and a reprint of the 1972 classic Why I Want a Wife, by Judy Brady...
...lover was somewhat reluctant, but White insisted. "I'll be positive, you'll be negative, and then you'll leave me," White recalls telling him. "And I was right." And so America's most influential gay writer, a man whom Le Monde once called the most accomplished American novelist since Henry James, began to live with AIDS...
...especially sensitive lover. Sex, it appears, was less a private act between two people than a plot element in the crowded drama he lived from day to day. Carolyn played her part when Jack Kerouac moved in. With her husband's tacit urging, she became the novelist's lover. "I provided for whichever of them was in residence according to his individual preferences," she writes of that arrangement...
...treatise on particle physics, an inside account of the Soviet development of the hydrogen bomb, a look at the Soviet government, education, and legal systems, a love story, a journey from political naivite to passionate struggle against authorities, and a gallery of personal profiles that show a novelist's instinct for description, all imbued a deep human compassion and spiced with an ironic sense of humor...