Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Legend will someday have it that Author Elmore Leonard became an overnight success with his 23rd novel. Such is not quite the case. True, Glitz (1985) rocketed toward the top of hardback best-seller lists, a feat that earlier Leonard books had not accomplished. Credit for this commercial breakthrough has been given to the huge promotional campaign waged on behalf of Glitz by its publisher. All those ads certainly did not hurt. But Leonard's triumph may have a somewhat less expensive explanation: the devoted readers who enjoyed and passed along the writer's early westerns (Hombre) and those...
...Bandits appeared a year ago, this freewheeling use of the Chief Executive might have produced disbelief. Now stretches of the novel seem to run in tandem with daily headlines. This accident of timing may help the book's sales, but Leonard's imaginative license is liable to be mistaken for a matter of fact. That would be unfair because the author makes unlikely events spring from carefully prepared plausibilities, some of which, through no fault of his own, may actually occur...
...writing papers and frantically cramming for exams leaves you bored, or if the death of the repertory movie theaters in Cambridge has left you craving variety, the American Repertory Theater may hold a novel diversion this month...
...SUMMONS TO MEMPHIS by Peter Taylor. The second novel by a 70-year-old master of the short form casts an amused glance back at manners, mores and a family squabble in the Upper South between the two world wars...
...arts, long-suppressed films started coming off shelves and books out of desk drawers. The Chopping Block, a new novel by Chingiz Aitmatov, features drugs as its theme and a former seminarian as its hero. Anatoli Rybakov's forthcoming novel The Children of the Arbat deals with Stalinist terror. This new freedom, said Poet Yevgeni Yevtushenko, has developed into a "pre-Renaissance" of the arts...