Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11:45 p.m.). Ship of Fools (1965). Vivien Leigh, Simone Signoret, Jose Ferrer, Lee Marvin, Oskar Werner and George Segal star in the motion-picture adaptation of Katherine Anne Porter's best-selling 1962 novel. Repeat...
COUPLES, by John Updike. In his fifth and most ambitious novel, Updike shuffles the sex lives of ten couples as he examines adultery in the "imaginative quest" for life's meaning...
DeFORD, by David Shetzline. A first novel with an unlikely hero-a proud and aging carpenter unluckily stuck on Skid Row-and an even unlikelier success in making real the old man's shining vision and integrity...
...Centaur was a loving tribute to his father, an endearing old-style eccentric in whom Updike sees "the Protestant kind of goodness going down with all the guns firing-antic, frantic, comic, but goodness nonetheless." Though the novel is obscured by unnecessary buttresses of Greek mythology, the portrait of Wesley Updike, in all its wonderful mania, sparkles with life. Wesley Updike is still mentioned in hushed tones in Shillington for his unpredictable teaching methods. One winter day, he suddenly dashed out of, his classroom in the middle of a lesson on decimals. Moments later, he reappeared with a handful...
Died. Edna Ferber, 80, grande dame of the big, romantic American novel, whose 32 books sold millions of copies; after a long illness; in Manhattan. The tiny, supercharged daughter of a Jewish businessman in Ottumwa, Iowa, she decided to "show" the town's anti-Semites by becoming famous. And so she did, never marrying, pouring everything into her writing as she mined the rich lodes of Americana she found all across the country-in Chicago (1924's So Big), the Mississippi River (1926's Show Boat), Oklahoma (1929's Cimarron), upstate New York...