Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clincher--What will you do with your life, young man? When Shapiro tried to answer he couldn't, because he knew something awful was going to happen. It was better that he didn't, because he intended to look DuPont in the eye and say, "Write a novel sir," to which DuPont would have snorted "Balderdash!" or something equally puerile. But Shapiro was fascinated by what was moving up from his gastro-intestinal tract; slowly yes, but inexorably moving, and he felt the way pharoah's charioteers must have felt when they saw the Red Sea falling in on them...
...twice he made noncom and got busted back to private. After five boisterous years and a war, he returned to civilian life. But he packed the Army with him and marched its brawling, grumbling, whoring characters through his typewriter. The result was From Here to Eternity in 1951. The novel was greeted with raves, big sales and a National Book Award. Critics invoked Crane, Hemingway and Wolfe when writing about the veteran's furious, gritty depiction of the U.S. Army as it was just before World War II. Yet at Jones' death last week...
Much of the novel is set in a fictitious Central American republic, a territory of the mind that has lately received many tourists. Joan Didion exercised her talents there in A Book of Common Prayer. García 3's The Autumn of the Patriarch also took place in such a Central American dreamscape. Niña Huanca strikes similar social and political chords, but Gonzalez-Aller also seeks the high notes of myth and the mysteries of human motives...
...Paris. As a young literary lion, Jones could not be expected to accept such a view. He proclaimed that his second novel, Some Came Running (1957), was not only longer than War and Peace but better. In fact, he said, it was "the greatest novel we've had in America." The critics vehemently disagreed and Jones went off to live in Paris. He and his blonde wife Gloria (once a stand-in for Marilyn Monroe) were to spend 16 years abroad. Throughout, Jones kept doggedly writing, but never again did he achieve the acclaim of Eternity...
...novel, Adam Kennedy's The Domino Principle was a thriller of more than usual style, distinguished by a fairly serious attempt to penetrate the mind of the sort of loser who, if properly manipulated, can be turned into a political assassin. Now the book has fallen into the heavy hands of Director Stanley Kramer, and, despite Kennedy's presence at the screenwriter's keyboard, everything that made the book good, popular fiction has somehow been lost...