Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LUST IS THE metaphor for the human condition in Philip Roth's novel, The Professor of Desire. His story of a young man's effort to arrive at sexual and romantic happiness is funny, written with a pungent Rabelasian wit, but marked by an underlying not of wistfulness. He portrays a dissatisfation almost inherent in living, the incompatibility of passion and peace and the transcience of happiness...
...backbone of the novel is Seth's tenacity in holding to this view. He suffers the slights and cruelties that might be expected as he works his way up from dry-goods clerk to successful lawyer. But Adler's faith in America is severely tested when he defends a young Jew accused of murder. The victim is a 14-year-old Christian girl, and the defendant is the plant manager of a new soft-drink firm that strongly resembles Coca-Cola in its formative years. Deep and violent prejudice shows itself as angry crowds clog Savannah streets during...
Members of the Tribe has its awkwardnesses. The long courtroom section, which might be a novel in itself, requires a new narrator, Adler's daughter. A concluding chapter introduces a contemporary Adler descendant who hastily ties the book to the present. The author makes no pronouncements about why Christian tribalism periodically festers with hatred of Jews. He merely holds to his story of an American Jew who believed, despite agonizing evidence to the contrary, that this hatred was an aberration, and not a basic part of his country's character. Kluger's novel makes this point with...
...your inner resources." He, his German-born wife Ingrid and their two daughters do just that in a dilapidated Edwardian house in County Offaly that they bought three years ago and have been refurbishing ever since. MacDonald's success came suddenly in 1974, when runaway sales of his novel World from Rough Stones sent the family scurrying from British taxes. At first he felt guilty about paying no taxes. But the $25,000 he spends annually in wages to local workers has eased his doubts. "It was the exemption that brought us here," he concedes, "but if it were...
Richard Condon Solitude, not tax relief, brought Novelist Condon and his wife Evelyn to Ireland in 1970 (as an American, he must pay U.S. taxes even though he lives abroad). A former pressagent, Condon, 62, boasts average book sales of 1.3 million and has sold five novels (including The Manchurian Candidate) to Hollywood. Currently he is writing political novel No. 12, to be called Death of a Politician. In his salmon pink 19-room mansion in Kilkenny, Condon works on his potboilers seven hours a day, seven days a week for ten weeks at a stretch...