Word: novelizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PART MYSTERY, part fantasy and part political statement, Pubis Angelical is an ambitious work that attempts to bring together a complex structure and a message of compassion. Manuel Puig, author of the brilliantly successful novel Kiss of the Spider Woman, is counted among the finest contemporary Latin American writers...
This, his most recent novel, combines the fantasy and magic that are the trademark of current Latin American fiction, but also of the author's own brand of passion and sexual intrigue. It is a virtuosic work that takes on a variety of ideas and stories, remaining engaging throughout its many facets. And still it attempts to go beyond its technical workmanship. It has a sympathetic message to deliver, revealed in the closing words: "More than to hug them, I want ... to talk to them ... and it could even be ... that we would understand each other...
Bantam Books bought the privilege of publishing Destiny for $1,015,000, "a sum," its publicity release announces, "greater than the combined advances earned by Stephen King, James Michener, Sidney Sheldon and Danielle Steel for their first novel." Aside from the tantalizing but possibly erroneous suggestion of a King-Michener-Sheldon-St eel collaboration, there is not much to celebrate. For one thing, a cool million no longer induces the slack-jawed awe it once did; everyone knows that insider traders on Wall Street can steal that much before lunch. And British Author Sally Beauman is not really a first...
Celebrity sporting events are like happy families in a Russian novel: they're all alike. Only the celebrities and the sports change. A number of celebrities, most of whom have nothing in common except that they are celebrities, get together to compete in a sport in which they have no expertise for a number of rewards, the most important of which is money to be donated to their favorite charities...
...Sport of Nature will surely provoke controversy. Its denunciations of South African politics are ferocious, its portraits of whites often scathing. The argument implied throughout the book can be caricatured: all South Africa needs is love. But Gordimer is saying much more than that. Her novel is both richly detailed and visionary, a brilliant reflection of a world that exists and an affirmation of faith in one that could be born...