Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quickly became a cause célèbre on many social levels. The duchess's restaurant meals were constantly interrupted by waiters who had read the book and simply wanted to shake her hand. The book was avidly read in her home region of Andalusia, where the novel is set. There she is respected not only as a horse woman but for her deep and continuing concern with the problems of the peasants. Separated from her husband, she lives with her three children and has now completed a second novel...
...entered, she received several encouraging embraces from spectators, then stood to hear the prosecution charge that her novel "insidiously presents in factual style a denunciation of a community." The prosecution's unhappiness turned largely on her portrayal of local officials, including a judge, who join in what the court called "a lamentable series of acts" to quash a peasant strike organized by field hands who want better...
...Limits. Prescott's most novel enterprise is the outdoor sports program Convinced that students need more than the artificial competition of games Prescott has abandoned traditional team sports. Instead, it has adopted the techniques developed by Outward Bound, an international program of more than 20 wilderness camps that stresses adventure, challenge and sell sufficiency...
...growing good of the world," George Eliot wrote in closing Middlemarch, her finest novel, "is partly dependent upon unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs." It was not only the motto for her books but, as Haight convincingly shows, an accurate summary of her own hidden life...
Most plots offer the writer a chance to show what he can do; bizarre or grotesque plots are more often a test of what he can refrain from doing. Here, for example, is a novel about three characters. Warren, Arthur and Junie, who set up platonic housekeeping together, squabble amiably, seek work, vacation at the seashore and, in various ways, find love. Presumably, such a book would have to be filled with novelistic bravado to lift it above the humdrum. But since Warren is a paraplegic, Arthur a near-spastic and Junie a hideously deformed victim of an acid attack...