Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like a scene out of a Graham Greene novel: a Central-American strongman and an Oxford-educated Briton sat beneath a coconut tree on a tropical beach philosophizing. The strongman, Panamanian Dictator Omar Torrijos, noted that both their fathers had been teachers, and that he had left his family at 17. The Briton, Author Greene himself, mused between sips of rum punch: "You should thank God you did escape from home, because if you hadn't you might be an intellectual today." Greene quickly added: "I am not, because to be an intellectual is rather academic. A creative writer...
...melodrama in upstate New York. In his re-creations of myth, Grendel and Jason and Medeia, he played the novelist-as-epic-poet, perhaps a little consciously; but once again he revealed his consistent longing for Significance, for the Big Theme, for some dimension that extends beyond the modern novel into older, more classical forms...
Marijuana Smugglers. In October Light, his best novel to date, Gardner has really got his hyphenated act together. As if to contain his ambitions, he has assigned himself at the start a small, local comedy of apparently modest import. An 80-year-old widow, Sally Abbott, has come home to the family farmhouse to live out her days with her widower brother James in the shadow of Prospect Mountain, near Bennington...
...Smugglers of Lost Souls' Rock, as her paperback is titled, becomes Sally's new consolation and Gardner's new form of hyphen: a novel-within-a-novel. Set in boldface type, this parody-saga of marijuana smugglers-the stuff for which lurid covers on airport paperbacks are designed-runs to almost 150 pages and comes dangerously close to upstaging October Light. Among comic-strip characters in Sally's paperback are the smuggling boat skipper Captain Fist, who gets violently seasick even in San Francisco Bay; Jonathan Nit, an inventor who schemes to solve the energy shortage...
...another novel move, the Faculty voted in closed session to expell a student for falsifying her admissions credentials on several different occasions, when she applied as a special student and later when she transferred to the regular degree program--the faculty's first expulsion in over a decade...