Word: novelizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heroes . . . It's the one thing I cling to in here: Wow, I'm hip now, like the dead people." So writes Actress Suzanne Vale, 29, whose diary of her 30 days in a Los Angeles drug rehabilitation clinic forms the strongest part of this feisty, refreshing first novel. Suzanne's journal is counterpoint to the strident monologue of a fellow patient, Alex Daniels, also 29, who bottomed out at a Ramada Inn on a half-ounce of cocaine, six Long Island iced teas, two Smirnoffs, a hamburger, French fries and cake...
...demonstration program in which workers can donate time off to colleagues who have lengthy illnesses or who need to stay home to care for stricken relatives. Last week Congress held hearings to discuss expanding the program. Its success so far may inspire businesses to try out the novel charity, which would impart a new meaning to the phrase "I gave at the office...
...traditional Arlesienne in crisscrossed lace shawls and striped silk skirt and a French cowgirl to round up the horses for which the region is famous. "I'm a nostalgic, naturally turned toward my roots," explains Lacroix. "A first collection establishes one's identity. It's like a first novel, almost always autobiographical...
Another remarkable record of consistency has been notched by Edith Pargeter, a prolific British writer and translator (of Czech poetry, among other pursuits). Under the nom de crime Ellis Peters she has produced The Rose Rent (Morrow; 190 pages; $15.95), her 13th highly evocative novel about Brother Cadfael, a 12th century monk in the abbey town of Shrewsbury. Like his 20th century soulmate, Father Brown of the G.K. Chesterton stories, Cadfael attractively suggests that the highest act of faith is the use of reason. Robert Barnard, whose mordantly funny one-off mysteries are as good as any currently being produced...
...novel does not lend itself so readily to sequels: the plots are more apocalyptic, and even if the characters survive, their undercover effectiveness usually does not. But just as John le Carre managed to bring back dumpy, deceptively bland George Smiley, so Brian Freemantle has managed to write six captivating novels featuring scruffy, wily Charlie Muffin. He is a brilliant survivor who in his time has outwitted the Soviets, the Chinese, the CIA, the FBI, the Mafia and his own British service, which early in his debut novel set him up to be killed. In See Charlie Run (Bantam...