Word: novelization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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True enough. But she says she was there and saw his death. If she wanted to make stuff up, there is an easy way to do so. Call the book a novel (or, as the New Republic's Charles Lane wickedly suggested, We, Rigoberta Menchu). Why didn...
...Star Called Henry (Viking; 343 pages; $24.95), Roddy Doyle's new novel about the birth of the modern Irish nation, begins with the vivid miseries of its hero, young Henry Smart, who is named for a dead brother whom his grieving mother can't forget. The time is the turn of the century, a dreary hiatus between a past of colonial starvation and a future of war and revolution. Henry's father, a one-legged Dublin bully-boy who free-lances as the doorman at a brothel, can't support the family, so Henry runs wild, stealing from shopkeepers, sleeping...
...experiences of a then unknown schoolteacher, Anna Leonowens who was hired by King Mongkut of Siam (now Thailand) to teach English to his children. Leonowens chronicled in detail her supposed experiences in Siam, and the memoirs written by this self-titled "governess" served as the basis for a novel by Margaret Landon entitled Anna and the King of Siam. In these memoirs, she claimed -- it turned out later, falsely -- that she developed a deep relationship with the King, and this is the central focus of the upcoming film. Landon's work was adapted into a movie of the same name...
Based on the 1990 cult crime novel by Lew McCreary, The Minus Man tells the story of mild and childlike Vann Siegert (Bottle Rocket's Owen Wilson), an ostensibly kind, offenseless man. He's so nauseatingly likable and law-abiding (even when driving onto a deserted highway he makes a point of using a signal and looking both ways), you'd never suspect him of having any violent tendencies. He's perfect. Eerily perfect. All right, you guessed it--he's a serial killer; a bona fide psycho (how could someone who uses their blinker on a deserted highway...
Drive Me Crazy, an adaptation of Todd Strasser's novel How I Created the Perfect Prom Date, is a not-so-biblical parable of high school life, a caricature of how everyone remembers high school only when they are very far away from it. You can basically figure out the entire plot of Drive Me Crazy before it even begins. Popular girl (Hart) and rebel boy (Adrian Grenier) are neighbors. Popular girl wants popular boy. Rebel boy wants rebel girl. Popular girl and rebel boy feign coupledom (Can't Buy Me Love style) to make the ones that they only...