Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Apparently, Hamill started out to write a novel about a boxer, realizing after 60 pages that "what it all was really about was incest." A few profanities and he was right in the middle of the Oedipal ring. So he took the story to its logical end, sort...
George Levanter never hesitates before accepting a "blind date." As the hero of Jerzy Kosinski's latest novel, Blind Date, he would violate the author's entire notion of how life should be lived if he were...
Levanter's life of "blind dates" brings him into contact with a Russian actress, famous scientists, business tycoons, and small-town nymphomaniacs, each of whom occupies as fleeting a part in the novel as they do in Levanter's life...
Marilyn French's first novel, The Women's Room, entwines all these overworked themes and setting. Only, as the frustrated reader surprisingly discovers, somehow it works. Just as you reach the point of nausea over a suburban kitchen dialogue, or read one more Harvard grad student gripe, French's narrator intervenes, letting you know that she too is bored...
...housewives are our mothers, the novel's Harvard group are our sisters. They partially escape the kitchen, but only partially. The rare husband willing to help wash dishes expects constant and eternal gratitude in return...