Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...swathed in multiple fictions. He is called Houlihan by Kesey-Deboree, who complicates matters by saying that Houlihan, rather than the real Cassady, was the model for the character Dean Moriarty in Kerouac's On the Road, as well as the prototype for Hart Kennedy in John Clellon Holmes' novel...
...experience was not so novel for Jonathan Bender '89, who said that Charles was a family friend. The two spoke briefly about common friends...
...England-born, old England-based Paul Theroux knows how to take care of literary business. Since 1967 he has published ten novels, four novellas, three short-story collections and five travel books, including The Great Railway Bazaar. He has paid his dues as an essayist and reviewer; his varied fiction has harmonized into a respected oeuvre; and he has had a glamorous payday: his 1982 novel The Mosquito Coast is, as they say, soon to be a major motion picture...
...That novel saw a discontented American attempt to carve a new life in the Honduran tropics. O-Zone, Theroux's first venture into science fiction, is also a survival story. His 21st century America is a nation that has lived fast, aged young and offers life-support systems only to those who can afford them. That would be the Owners, an elite who inhabit high-rise fortresses in Manhattan. The armed towers keep out the "aliens," variously known as Starkies, Skells, Trolls and Roaches. They are part of a vast underclass, disinherited by global economic collapse and lingering radioactive wastes...
...novel's simple plot concerns a return to the O-Zone with Theroux's version of Tom Swift as technical consultant. A group of entrepreneurs wants to construct an artificial mountain to change the region's climate. Fizzy is captured by aliens, Daniel Boone throwbacks, who instruct him in the manly arts of survival and replace his prejudices with a sense of pride and possibility...