Word: novelizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WOMEN WRITERS have certainly done well for themselves since the days of the 19th century novel. Jane Austen, George Eliot and the Bronte sisters worked their own powerful personalities into their fiction. But they struggled against a male-dominated society that saw writing as a recreation for women only if they were recognizable freaks like the Brontes, spinsters like Austen or "immoral" rebels like Eliot, who shocked London society by living with a man who was not her husband...
Best known for The Handmaid's Tale--her best-selling "visionary" novel in the style of 1984 and Brave New World--Atwood always writes about women struggling against or attempting to survive the oppression of men. The titles of her novels, The Edible Woman, Surfacing, Lady Oracle, Life Before Man, Bodily Harm, bear this...
...three years Roth spent writing The Counterlife have left him satisfied ("I gave it my all") and resigned to the prospect of being misunderstood once again. He expresses hope that Nathan's putative death in the novel will discourage people from reading his fiction as autobiography, but he is not optimistic. "I write about what could have happened," he says, "not what did happen. Why that's so hard to grasp I don't understand. I have once in a while started off just setting down some incident I'd actually gone through and I can hardly get past...
Nathan Zuckerman lives, dies and lives again in Philip Roth's The Counterlife, a novel that explores the truth about fiction...
...cruel Catch-22 of welfare is that it often punishes recipients who try to work their way out of poverty. By taking away benefits from the poor when their income starts to climb, welfare discourages incentive. A novel program in Washington State proposes to turn that problem on its head by offering bonuses as well as benefits to welfare recipients who work or undergo job training. In effect, Washington wants to tell the poor: Whatever you earn (up to a point), you can keep...