Word: novelizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...under way in the cultural domain. During the past year more than a dozen previously banned movies have been screened before fascinated audiences. On the stage, plays like Mikhail Shatrov's Dictatorship of Conscience examine past failures of Communism. Anatoli Rybakov's Children of the Arbat, a novel that chronicles the murderous Stalinist purges of the 1930s, appeared in a literary journal after going unpublished for two decades. Last month a group of ex-political prisoners and dissident writers applied for permission to publish their own magazine, aptly titled Glasnost. The government has so far given no official answer...
...father. None of the combatants realized that they fought over deserted ground. Sheryl, discovering she was pregnant, had been whisked away: "For in these matters, it was well accepted at the time, the girl must disappear and the hoodlum boy never know." That Night, Author Alice McDermott's second novel, deftly balances the ravenous powers of young love against the shelters of community, security, the orderly progress of generations. In the aftermath of the episode that night, the parents in the neighborhood "had only begun to learn that while their love had been sufficient to form us, it would...
...boys soon grow uncomfortable in the competitive world, and a sister concludes that her parents and siblings are "like . . . a family of elves . . . If one leaves, none of the rest of us grow up." Wise child. The children's fatal interdependence provides the subject of this piercing first novel. Author Robert Boswell smoothly oscillates from third to first person, giving the principals a chance to confess and dream. The voices are wholly convincing, and Boswell's apercus provide psychological criticism, as when Edward unconsciously utters his own epitaph: "No one wants to hear about a good man being good...
...killed Carolyn Polhemus? There is a simple answer to that question, of course, and Presumed Innocent eventually provides it. But the novel has aspirations well beyond those of the run-of-the-mill whodunit. Turow uses Carolyn's grotesque death as a means of exposing the trail of municipal corruption that has spread through Kindle County. The issue is not merely ! whether a murderer will be brought to justice but whether public institutions and their guardians are any longer capable of finding the truth...
...extended trial forms the novel's centerpiece and shows off Turow's specialized knowledge to best advantage. The jousting between prosecution and defense, the psychological intricacies of jury selection, the subtle influence a judge can exercise on the outcome of a case, all are convincingly and grippingly portrayed. And the irony behind these elaborate proceedings is that they almost certainly have no bearing on the actuality of Carolyn's death...