Word: novelization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...City can be hard to get through. Perhaps it is a function of a culture that looks too much to happy endings, but as you read The Unknown City you find yourself waiting for an auspicious sign or thread of hope. None comes. Perhaps this is expected in a novel, but, in a sociological analysis documenting the lives of men and women only slightly older than ourselves, it is an absence that leaves you altogether unsettled...
Hawthorne's birthplace and the House of Seven Gables, which inspired his novel of that name, sit side by side a few blocks from the Custom House...
...counsel their kids on sex. Cathy Wolf, 29, of North Wales, Pa., says she grew up learning about sex largely from her friends and from reading controversial books. Open-minded and proactive, she says she has returned to a book she once sought out for advice, Judy Blume's novel Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, and is reading it to her two boys, 8 and 11. The novel discusses the awkwardness of adolescence, including sexual stirrings. "That book was forbidden to me as a kid," Wolf says. "I'm hoping to give them a different perspective about...
Readers can now decide for themselves. Nearly two years ago, to inaugurate her now famous book club, Oprah Winfrey sent viewers swarming to buy Jacquelyn Mitchard's well-reviewed first novel, The Deep End of the Ocean; four months later, a five-year-old book by Wally Lamb, She's Come Undone, was anointed. Now, with nearly 3 million copies of each book in print, both authors are nervously sending their second novels out into the world. Unless Winfrey gives the writers another on-air boost, Mitchard's The Most Wanted (Viking; 407 pages; $24.95) and Lamb's I Know...
...says, "but I sort of had to take a hiatus for a couple of months." At the peak of Oprah fever, Lamb was getting about 75 letters a month from readers, and he had to rent a telephone-free office across town in order to finish the new novel...