Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CHANGE, by J. R. Salamanca. Bitterness and tenderness are the alternating currents in this novel of the breakup of a marriage by the author of The Lost Country and Lilith...
...FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN, by John Fowles. A fascinating novel that uses the tricks and turns of Victorian fiction to pound home the thesis that freedom is the natural condition...
Lonely Dissenter. Solzhenitsyn's dismissal was an inevitable conclusion to his long, often lonely, campaign for intellectual freedom in the Soviet Union. Since the Russian publication in 1962 of his first novel, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, he has been marked as a dissenter. While a handful of other Russian writers fled to the West, he remained determined to stay and work for the cause of literary freedom in the Soviet Union. In 1967 he angered the apparatchiki with his famous letter to the Fourth Congress of Soviet Writers, in which he condemned "the no longer...
...wife ignorant of his new time travel kick but succeeds only in riveting her-and a wary community's-attention upon his strange behavior. Du Maurier's view of both modern and medieval marriage is remarkably waspish, but it is this very connubial bitchiness that keeps the novel from a routine Gothicism and makes it a stylish, contemporary entertainment...
...youthful judge must decide the fate of a man who kills his executioner after being convicted of a murder that he did not commit. Juice concerns a wealthy businessman fighting the machinery mobilized to exonerate him of the drunken-driving death of a pedestrian. Now, in his sixth novel, Becker, 42, turns back to the Civil War. In an excellent period morality tale, a Union Army officer attempts to save the life of a teen-age Confederate boy who shot him during a skirmish...