Word: novelizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scene at the bullring in Plasencia, Spain, was like a page from a % Hemingway novel -- almost. A chorus of "Ole! Ole!" greeted Matador Luis Reina as he stepped into the arena last week bedecked in his sky-blue, gold- embroidered suit of lights. But the cheers turned to jeers when the crowd noticed the letters A-K-A-I in red silk running down his sleeves and pant legs. For the first time, a matador had sold space on his costume for advertising. The Japanese electronics firm (the name translates as "red" in Japanese) is paying the 29-year...
That thriving thatched-cottage industry of Britain -- writing very, very long romance novels -- is carried on these days by a new generation of hard- fingered women with tea cozies, cats and killer word processors. Close in the wake of Sally Beauman's Destiny comes Celia Brayfield's first novel, Pearls. Brayfield's protagonists are the fabulous Bourton sisters: Catherine, the "Mona Lisa of Wall Street," and Monty, the international rock star, who wake up one morning to find priceless pink pearls under their pillows. What do the gifts mean? Can they have anything to do with the sisters' late father...
...title of this first novel is a trifle misleading. Rick Wheeler, an RC Cola salesman in western Massachusetts, owns very little except a tense marriage with Paige, his wife of five years. In the past, after fights in their small apartment, Rick could escape by driving across the state line to Vermont, where Paige has never been, hence a place that he can claim as his alone. Now even that consolation seems pointless. Six months after her miscarriage, which has driven Rick into self-absorbed guilt and silence, Paige has moved out. The question of whether this marriage...
Sailors once dreaded the blue Sargasso Sea, believing its gulfweed could entangle them forever. The protagonist of William McPherson's novel fears entrapment in other currents. Andrew MacAllister, 40, an American playwright, is lured by the danger of adultery while in London to open one of his plays. He feels "controlled by urgent signals other than his own." Later, when he and his wife Ann, "the couple on the wedding cake," are on vacation in Bermuda, he has a homosexual encounter and is shocked to find that his body continually horrifies him. In McPherson's fine first novel Testing...
Sensible is what Michael Stanley Dukakis, 53, is all about. If he were a magazine, it would be Consumer Reports. Dukakis is a man who cannot recall the last novel he read; he once took on a family vacation a book entitled Swedish Land-Use Planning. In his high school yearbook he is facetiously depicted as "Big Chief Brain in Face." He can wax ecstatic over finding a pair of $47 shoes in a discount outlet, and has owned just four cars in the past quarter- century: a Rambler, two Plymouths and the current 1981 Dodge. "My wife says...