Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This month, Ellis is joined in hot-young-writer circles by Jill Eisenstadt, Bennington class of '85 whose new novel Far Rockaway is getting the big push from publisher Alfred A. Knopf. Eisenstadt's book tells of the drinking and drowning bouts of lifeguards in "Rotaway," a seedy New York beach, and specifically of Alex, who escapes the sand and sea when she gets a scholarship from a New England college...
...EISENSTADT'S imagination has served her well for the novel's Rockaway scenes--which emerge as perceptive, believeable, and realistic. No one will find Eisenstadt's characters as jaded and junky as Ellis' typical waste cases, and she is quite defensive about that difference. "I don't think my characters have slept with 72 people. They're not cynical about what's happened to them or what hasn't happened to them. They're not full of loathing and spite," Eisenstadt says. "They're just looking for love...
Jill Eisenstadt hopes that unlike From Rockaway, the second novel will stand on its own binding. "I don't mean to sound defensive," she says at the end of our interview. "But that's the thing--people are always making me defensive about the book when it's supposed to speak for itself without you having to defend it to people. And that makes you feel like you really failed as a writer, because people aren't understanding...
...novel The Comedians, Graham Greene described a similar time in Haiti: "No one dared move on the roads at night; it was the hour when only the zombies worked, or else the Tonton Macoutes." That infamous paramilitary force of Dr. Francois (Papa Doc") Duvalier and his son Baby Doc was disbanded by decree after Jean-Claude fell from power last year, but in spite of repeated promises, it was never disarmed. The provisional government has prosecuted only a few of the most notorious thugs. "It isn't easy to get rid of something as basic as the Macoutes," says Aubelin...
Murder, kidnapping, wizardry, and fair damsels in distress are all ingredients in the film's stock, but Reiner's adaptation of William Goldman's revered 1973 novel lacks the zest of a classic like The Three Musketeers or even Raiders of the Lost...