Word: novelizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Forty years later, Appelfeld is regarded as one of Israel's best novelists -- though not necessarily its most typical. Living in a nation whose people have aggressively reversed the role of outsider and helpless victim, he still writes what he describes as a literature of uprootedness. In his new novel, The Immortal Bartfuss, the concept of a Jewish homeland is not relevant. Bartfuss, the emotionally anesthetized protagonist, does not even have a proper home. He sleeps in a room apart from a wife he avoids and two daughters he scarcely knows. Bartfuss is some sort of underworld trader who keeps...
SOUTHERNERS beware--The Prince of Tides, a novel by Pat Conroy, has no mercy from beginning to end. Conroy traces the disintegration and eventual triumphant coming together of a 20th century South Carolina shrimper's family in a masterpiece of reality, insanity and fantasy...
...page novel beautifully encompasses the absolute horrors and utter joys of life, not just in the South, but everywhere. Incongruously packaged like a Harlequin romance with the author's name as large as the title, the issues that Conroy never allows to rest are ignorance, prejudice, and fear...
...seems well and good--until Tom, in a straightforward, unapologetic manner that characterizes the entire novel, relates the lurid tale of his punishment for the time, as a young child, that he killed the last bald-eagle in Colleton County "for pleasure, for the singularity...
Power and those it attracts are the subjects of Wolfe's novel. And Sherman McCoy is at the heart of it all--the axis of a limited world, the universe of social New York. The world where $1 million a year is barely enough income and the Co-op board has more control over your life than the police...