Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SMALL TOWN IN GERMANY, by John le Carre. A missing embassy official, stolen secret files, and the illusion-fed machinations of the diplomatic life in Bonn are all part of the puzzle in this novel of suspense and political intrigue...
...novel proposition in which everyone would wear a mask in order to express the idea "all of us are Jack" was also discussed without reaching any definite conclusion...
...writes slowly and meticulously. He began perhaps his best-known work, Snow Country, in 1934 and did not consider it completed until 1947. A bittersweet, erotic story of the doomed affair of a deteriorating geisha and a Tokyo dilettante, the novel shows Kawabata at his best, sensually describing the darker aspects of life, suffering, love and death. Both Snow Country and the later, highly praised Thousand Cranes have been published in the U.S. and Europe. But many of his score of novels are barely known abroad...
...attitude is free and defiant. "I don't give a damn any longer what people think," declares Manhattan Career Girl Pam Zauderer, 23. Not exactly a novel or revolutionary notion. Still, she was raised in Chanel suits picked out by her mother, and she now goes dining and dancing in pants-shaggy fur ones for the gaucho look at a party given by Vogue Editor Diana Vreeland, fringed satin ones for the Indian look at a Four Seasons reception for Yves Saint Laurent. Post-Deb Cathy Macauley, 21, shows up in Manhattan for the superformal opening of the Metropolitan...
...realities left in a world of confused identities." David Cornwell, who as John le Carrè wrote The Spy Who Came In from the Cold and The Looking Glass War, says this in discussing the exploitation of sex by the publishing trade. In his spy novels, Le Carrè himself has ignored the libidinous and gone directly to the problem of the confused identities of bumbling antiheroes. A Small Town in Germany is more a skillful novel of political intrigue than a spy story, but Le Carrè's aim is still the same...