Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...initial wonder of the show is that unlike most adaptations, David Edgar's script does not merely excerpt Charles Dickens' 800-page novel about greed vs. decency in Victorian London: virtually all of it is there, twists and turns, guffaws and grief, more than 130 characters wearing some 375 costumes and 75 wigs. Yet the epic sweep almost never overwhelms the emotional intimacy. Good ultimately triumphs in each of the half a dozen interwoven plots, but the show ends with the now wealthy title character carrying an abandoned boy--a symbol of the hapless children whom Nicholas frees from...
Antebellum gowns and Confederate uniforms were back in vogue in Atlanta and environs at a ten-day celebration marking the 50th anniversary of Margaret Mitchell's novel about the Old South, Gone With the Wind. The U.S. Postal Service last week even issued a definitive memorial 1 cents U.S. postage stamp with Mitchell's likeness. As if to confirm the cult status of the Pulitzer- prize-winning novel (25 million copies sold in 27 languages) and the 1939 movie, serious philatelists and GWTW aficionados alike stormed a postal booth and bought 50,000 of the new stamps...
...five-day congress, members of the Soviet Writers' Union voted overwhelmingly to transform the former country house of Pasternak, who had once been a virtual non-person, into a museum. Writers also discussed the publication of Pasternak's most important novel, Doctor Zhivago, which is still banned in the Soviet Union. They apparently reached no definite ! conclusions about recommending publication...
...Pearson's second novel begins, "That was the summer we lost the bald Jeeter who was not even mostly Jeeter anymore but was probably mostly Throckmorton or anyway was probably considered mostly Throckmorton which was an appreciable step up from being considered mostly Jeeter since Jeeters hadn't ever been anything much while Throckmortons had in fact been something once . . ." This opening sentence runs on for 353 more words...
...what goes on in his hometown. But Adam's wife Clara and teenage son Ike have received a vivid impression of how scary the world can be. Worse is to follow, not only for the Dwyers but for everyone else who figures prominently in Geoffrey Wolff's fourth novel. Providence is a tangled tale, ensnarling a number of characters, including a cop and some robbers, who manage to complicate one another's lives in ways impossible to predict. Wolff does not always seem certain whether he is offering a straight thriller or an anatomy of the creeping...