Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Probably one of the first spy-novel fans to become intrigued with John le Carré's new bestseller, The Honourable Schoolboy, was TIME Hong Kong Correspondent Bing Wong. In fact, he got involved with the book and author that are the subjects of this week's cover story well before Le Carré-David Cornwell, that is-began to write his tale of British intelligence and Far Eastern intrigue. Wong and Cornwell met in the summer of 1975 in Hong Kong. As Wong recounts, Cornwell "picked my brain" for background detail. Last October, when Cornwell returned...
...dissection of these wars is a risky business for novelists as well as for governments. Too far in one direction and a book is something to kill time?for those who like it dead. Too far in the other direction and a novel becomes pretension in a dust jacket. The author of The Honourable Schoolboy manages to skirt both terminals. But even he comes too close for comfort. Can the spy novel continue to grow without losing its value as entertainment? For David Cornwell?John le Carré?George Smiley, it is, in every sense of the word, a vital...
Then there is Diane Keaton in Looking for Mr. Goodbar. As Theresa Dunn, Keaton dominates this raunchy, risky, violent dramatization of Judith Ressner's 1975 novel about a schoolteacher who cruises singles bars. Watching her is a shock for viewers who associate her shy and awkward manner with Annie Hall. She is on-screen for well over two hours while her character disintegrates in the direction of alienation and death...
...novel is Kepesh's feverish attempt to explain how he got that way. The only child of doting parents who run a summer resort in the Catskills, he develops early on a taste for the disreputable in the person of Herbie Bratasky, the New York City-imported social director at his parents' hotel. Herbie can make a whole range of bathroom noises with his mouth and looks as though he may be successful with women. One winter, young Kepesh receives a letter from his hero describing Herbie's latest toilet imitations and, against all the dictates...
...ultimate fate is never in doubt - or at least will not be to readers familiar with Roth's work. In The Breast (1972), David Kepesh suffers a Kafkaesque transformation from man to mammary. Kepesh of course cannot know that such a thing will happen to him (since this novel is narrated before events in The Breast begin). But the reader's knowledge of the surrealistic enchantment that awaits Kepesh lends a poignancy to his struggles. Try as he may to be good, flesh will subsume him at last. At the end of his narrative, Kepesh nuzzles the good...