Word: novelizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LIKE LAST year's Room With A View, Maurice was adapted from an E.M. Forster novel by the Ivory-Merchant production team. It too focuses on the upper slice of English society and is filled with rabbit hunts, horse riding and quaint dinner conversation. The new film even features a climactic game of cricket...
...Ivory-Merchant team have always made the effort to be faithful to the spirit of the novels they have adapted, and with films like Room and The Bostonians, the approach worked well. With Maurice, however, a novel that Forster wrote in 1917 but refused to publish in his lifetime, the filmmakers have latched on to some lesser material, held tight for two and a half hours, and smothered stirring emotional turmoil with good intentions...
After 10 years in the real world of New York's glamorous literary scene, author James Atlas '71 returned last night to the scene of his first best-selling novel, "The Great Pretender...
After giving a speech at the Winthrop House Junior Common Room, Atlas reflected on how far he has come in the past 15 years. Atlas, who worked for The Advocate and The Crimson while at Harvard, set his novel--which has won kudos from the literary world--in Harvard of the late 1960s. Atlas's book details the frustration and confusion of youth in the 1960s. The semiautobiographical tale is told through the eyes of a budding author, whose life is shadowed by his Jewish-Chicago past...
After the revisions on the book are finished, Thernstrom says she hopes to travel to Ireland on a fellowship that she won from Harvard. And in the meantime, she will continue work on a novel she started this summer...