Word: novelizations
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Carolyn See's latest novel is an adventuresome blend of feminist fiction and nuclear apocalypse fantasy set in California. That pulling this off might require the implacable imagination of Doris Lessing does not seem to have daunted the author, whose career suggests a practical attitude toward the writing game. See has had good critical success with her novels Rhine Maidens and Mothers, Daughters. As a component of "Monica Highland," she has collaborated on mass-market romances (Lotus Land and 110 Shanghai Road). There is also Professor See, who teaches writing at UCLA, and See a book reviewer...
ACCORDING TO a recent Time article, the '80s may well go down in literary history as the decade of the mystery novel. P.D. James, the reigning queen of fictional murder and intrigue, has recently published A Taste for Death, an impeccably British sleuth story that will help that prediction come true...
...seems overburdened or contrived. Her smooth unravelling of the mystery's details works hand-in-hand with her psychological portraits to create a work that is at once sheer entertainment and complex social inquiry. A Taste for Death may not go down in literary history as a great British novel, but it is a great British mystery...
...Lost Language of Cranes, David Leavitt's much-awaited first novel, is a work obsessed with secrets. Leavitt, age 25, has been heralded as the "voice of his generation" in some quarters of the New York literary set, where his 1984 collection of short stories, Family Dancing, won gushing praise. Because he frequently deals with "gay themes," and because Leavitt is himself a homosexual, some have dubbed him the spokesman of young gays as well...
Novelist Rybakov, 75, is best known for his adventure stories and children's books, as well as the 1978 novel Heavy Sand, about Soviet Jews' persecution by the Nazis during World War II. He describes his new work, which is set in the year 1934, as a "group portrait" of his own generation at a time when Stalin was consolidating power before the Great Terror. In the manner of Tolstoy's War and Peace, the novel mixes fact and fiction, historical figures and imaginary ones. Most important, it contains a "full portrait of the man" Stalin, Rybakov told...