Word: novelization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Since the publication of his first novel The Poorhouse Fair in 1959, he has won two Pulitzer Prizes, four National Book Awards, the MacDowell Medal and the National Medal of Arts...
Updike's latest novel, Toward the End of Time, was published in 1997. According to Sweeny, a new book, a "quasi-novel" titled Bech at Bay, will be released in October...
...scientific team assembled by writers Stephen Hauser and Paul Attanasio, adapting an old Michael Crichton novel, is ragtag and cranky. The chief credential of its psychologist (Dustin Hoffman) is a report on how to handle alien encounters, which he admits cribbing largely from sci-fi tales. The biochemist (Sharon Stone) is a pill popper. The mathematician (Samuel L. Jackson) is a cynic, the astrophysicist (Liev Schreiber) is twittily lusting after a Nobel Prize, and the team leader (Peter Coyote) needs to try a little tenderness. In short, the possibilities for amusing dysfunction are potentially larger than we usually find...
...Anna Quindlen's third novel, Black and Blue (Random House; 293 pages; $23), the former New York Times columnist has caught the evil essence. If its moment should prove to be right (a long shot, to be sure), the novel is good enough to become to domestic violence what Uncle Tom's Cabin was to slavery--a morally crystallizing act of propaganda that works because it has the ring of truth...
...three movies' worth of plot in a fast 100 minutes or so. His sensuous, delirious new film, Live Flesh, has plenty. Victor is involved with two women, Clara and Elena (the sorcerous Francesca Neri), both of whom are married to jealous policemen. The story (based on a Ruth Rendell novel) begins in 1970 with a prostitute giving birth to Victor on a Madrid bus and, within half an hour, doles out drugs, sex, a triangular gun battle and a paraplegic policeman (Javier Bardem) who plays basketball in the 1992 Paralympics in Barcelona...