Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Skeptics suspected that the Navy, fighting doggedly against unification of the services and jealous of the Army's atomic bomb, might be tooting its horn too loudly. But there was still a fair chance that the Congressmen's scuttlebutt was based on well-hidden fact. Two novel and dreadful weapons have long been discussed, in whispers...
...lifts her curly lashes, takes one long look at Captain Wayne and-wham! Here's the real-life double of her own fictional hero. She yearns to tell him who she is and offer him the lead in the projected film. But the outspoken Captain has read her novel, thinks her hero is a thoroughgoing jerk...
...what had caused all this commotion? Just one bad novel, Wake of the Red Witch. And had it really made a stir? Of course not; that was just the way publishers cried their shoddier wares these days...
James Cain's new novel is set in the period of the War Between the States, but readers will not have to leaf far to discover that it is about the same hair-raising war-between-the-sexes that chilled U.S. marrows in The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce. A well-told tale whose deadpan savagery suggests that it was written with the tip of an icicle, it features enough lust and mayhem per page to shame a pulp novel...
...current historical-novel bug has bitten even Somerset Maugham. With Then and Now he leaves the 19th and 20th Centuries for the first time since his Making of a Saint (1898), retreats 400-odd years to the Italy of Cesare Borgia and Niccoló Machiavelli. Then and Now is a talky, occasionally witty costume piece about Machiavelli in love and Borgia in his glory. It is also an ironical sermon on the unchanging wonders of human nature. Novelist Maugham, now 72, denies that he preaches sermons of any kind. Said he recently: "I think it is an abuse...