Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DeFORD, by David Shetzline. In this sensitive first novel, an aging carpenter hangs on to his dignity and memories amidst the defeat and depravity of Skid...
...JUNCTION. Suzy Kendall, the newest and perhaps brightest of Britain's new blonde birds, is reason enough to recommend this trip to a broken-down Battersea slum, based on a novel by Nell Dunn (Poor Cow) and directed by Peter Collinson (The Penthouse...
TUNC, by Lawrence Durrell. The author's first novel since the completion of the Alexandria Quartet in 1960 has a scientist struggling against the restrictions of established order and ultimately confronting the paradoxes of freedom...
Listlessness of Limbo. Agnon's nameless Wandering Jew in this 1939 novel is a fortyish exile returned from Palestine after World War I to the East European town of his youth. Moving into a small hotel, the wanderer becomes "that man who was a guest for the night and stayed for many nights." Agnon himself was born in the Galicia region of Austro-Hungarian Poland, went to Palestine as a very young man, then back to Europe during World War I before returning to his adopted homeland. Obvious elements of disenchanted autobiography are present in the words that another...
David Shetzline, 32, has wandered through the U.S.-from his birthplace in Yonkers, N.Y., to the small ranch in Oregon where he now lives. He has been a ditchdigger, an army parachutist and a college student (Cornell and Columbia). DeFord, his first novel, reflects his experience and the diversity of the nation he knows so well...