Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DOWN STAIRCASE. Sandy Dennis re-creates with considerable grace the tyro schoolmarm of Bel Kaufman's bestselling novel about a "problem area" high school...
...OPERATIONAL NECESSITY, by Gwyn Griffin. This spare juxtaposition of a crisis at sea and a crisis of conscience during World War II is so far the year's best adventure novel...
...left-wing intellectual he went to China in 1925 to serve as an aide to Mikhail Borodin, the Russian agent whose job was to subvert Sun Yat-sen's Kuomintang for the Communists. That adventure was distilled in an epic novel entitled Man's Fate. When civil war broke out in Spain, Malraux signed on as a Loyalist air officer and wrote another novel based on personal experience, Man's Hope. In World War II he was a hero in the French maquis...
...Scottish coast near Edinburgh just after V-E day. Gog has no memory, and the only clues to his identity are tattoos on the back of his left and right hands reading Gog and Magog-the names of two giant wooden figures in the City of London.* The novel, fable or parable tells the story of Gog's pilgrimage from Edinburgh to London in quest of himself...
...series of bizarre episodes, Gog finds himself involved with such hallucinatory historical characters as the Duke of Wellington, Cleopatra, and Alfred the Great, not to mention such odd fictive figures as the Bagman and the Crook. In a novel of this picaresque kind, an orgy is to be expected sooner or later. Gog's orgy comes promptly and seems to be under pre-Christian Druidic auspices, though the Marquis de Sade and Herr von Sacher-Masoch are present in postures appropriate to their eponymous status. Gog meets his spiritual twin, an evil ogre called Magog. He also finds...