Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This novel marks another step in one of the most interesting careers in contemporary letters. It has taken a while for that shoe to drop. The Middle Ground, British Author Margaret Drabble's ninth novel, appeared in 1980 and underscored a process that had begun several books earlier: a movement away from the narrow, intense psychological portraits of her early fiction (A Summer Bird-Cage, The Garrick Year) toward panoramas of realistic characters placed in a recognizable society. Drabble's progress was retrograde, running against the modern notion that fiction should be deep and singular rather than broad and general...
When asked about the official Soviet response to his novel, Rybakov said, "My wife and I have been in the United States for two months. I guess that says something...
Rybakov, who recently published a historical novel on the Stalin era, said the willingness of Soviet publishers to print his book signalled a new chapter in Glasnost...
Rybakov's novel will be published in the U.S. this spring. He said that he plans to follow it quickly with a second novel about Stalin's rule from 1935 to 1939, and then with a third about Stalin...
...candidacy. Far more glaring was Dole's discomfort with any substantive discussion, save for his mantra-like promises to provide "strong leadership." The danger is that Bush and Dole, in swatting away the far more ideological underdogs, will each be viewed as fitting the description from Henry Adams' 1880 novel, Democracy: "He had . . . a statesmanlike contempt for philosophical politics. He loved power, and he meant to be President. That was enough...