Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...human interest" newspaper account of her plight brings other characters scur rying. An aging writer (Larkin Ford) thinks the governess's story might make a good plot for his next novel. Her ex-fiance (Lucien Zabielski) throws himself at her feet in the belief that she tried to commit suicide out of love for him. Her former employer (Gordon Gould), the fa ther of the dead child, turns out to have been her adulterous lover. Yet, in seek ing the truth each character continues to live out a lie. Why? The governess offers an answer in a gently despairing...
...grim a diagnosis, Graham made a decision. She would try to break through the barrier of silence that all too often shrouds terminal illness. Before the end, she explains, "I want to do something that matters." So she approached the incoming Daily News managing editor, Gregory Favre, with the novel idea of writing a column about cancer-and death-from a patient's point of view. He promptly accepted the suggestion. Says he: "She is a talented writer with great sensitivity. There is a need for this type of thing." Readers apparently agree. Each of the ten columns that...
...publisher did not really have to print J.P. Donleavy's name on the dust jacket of this novel. Arch alliteration is a trademark established by the author through a steady succession of Saddest Summers, Beastly Beatitudes and Mad Molecule. Fans and detractors can agree on one point: no one but Donleavy could commit such titles...
...seventh novel is familiar in other ways. The setting is Ireland, scene of the author's most exuberant and successful prose. Reginald Darcy Thormond Dancer Kildare is not another Sebastian Dangerfield, the irrepressible Ginger Man, but one of Donleavy's sensitive young souls. His mother dies when Darcy is young and the lad inherits Andromeda Park, a venerable estate that has seen better days and will see worse. Darcy's absentee father lunges at the inheritance, making his son's life miserable. Sure and it is a long, crowded road that Darcy must travel before...
...style has a touch of Raymond Chandler; the Fazenda case has a fleeting similarity to the unsolved 1940s Black Dahlia murder in Los Angeles. The novel continually echoes tabloid history to enliven its central incident: a 28-year-old murder known as the "case of the Virgin Tramp...