Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DRESS GRAY (NBC). A military-school cadet's drowning reveals seedy goings-on beneath the spit and polish. Gore Vidal's adaptation of the novel by Lucian K. Truscott IV unraveled a good mystery and showed a rare feel for the milieu...
...PERFECT SPY by John le Carre. The spymaster's most personal novel, a tale of wayward father and bitter son, examines the psychological and moral makeup of a double agent...
Vargas Llosa would agree. He was a student in Paris when he first encountered Emma nearly 30 years ago. Of subsequent rereadings, he writes, "I have always had the sensation that I was discovering secret facets, unpublished details." This feeling is especially keen when the novel is discussed along with Flaubert's intimate correspondence. Vargas Llosa does this with elan and insight not unexpected from one of the world's most accomplished novelists...
...ideal, of course, is Madame Bovary, a novel whose only flaw may be that its perfection chills the sympathies traditionally required for a cozy read. Emma's large appetites and rebelliousness may be less scandalous today, but they are no less frightening than they were to the l9th century French bourgeoisie...
...England but about the early 18th century. His debut, Man's Illegal Life, was a tour de force about urban turmoil in the years before London had police (his detective, named George Man, is a sort of civic night watchman with an awesome sense of duty). Heller's second novel, Man's Storm (Scribner's; 196 pages; $13.95), is in the same vein and invokes in vivid detail the consequences of an actual hurricane recorded by the writer Daniel Defoe, who appears as an ancillary character...