Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MORNING, by Richard Bradford. The theme is familiar-an adolescent's search for manhood-but the telling, in this first novel, is tender and humorous...
KING, QUEEN, KNAVE by Vladimir Nabokov. The eternal love triangle gets some witty twists in this first English-language edition of a novel written in 1928, when the Russian-born prose master was a 28-year-old emigre living in Berlin...
...poet, Burgess also warns, is a dangerous man-one of life's great survivors. In the wildly freewheeling last half of the novel, Enderby returns to claim his old poet's self. On the lam from all his would-be reformers-including the police-he ends up in the layatories of Morocco, blissfully scribbling a long poem based on Hamlet. Enderby may not have the gift for living, but, concludes Burgess, "poets, even minor ones, donate the right words" that enable others to live. On this claim-that they are saviors who cannot save themselves-Burgess rests...
...ledgers, aim primarily to pick off winners, not pick up literature. But every once in a while, through the magic of ricochet and carom, they manage to do both with a single resounding shot. Such is the fate of this book. True Grit is a lean but plucky novel that has been sold to the movies for $300,000, serialized in the Saturday Evening Post and chosen as a Literary Guild selection. It is also gilded with literary quality that can delight book lovers as well as bookkeepers...
...lasting black-brother, white-sister relationship with Barbara King, a Kentucky-born actress. And finally comes the highly satisfactory love affair with Christopher, a natty young militant black cat. The most important thematic progression to be noted in this work is that for the first time in a Baldwin novel, black man gets black...