Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Perfect Spy arrives in the U.S. with its cover blown. Published last month in the U.K., John le Carre's eleventh novel could hardly pass review without someone noting that the main character is a British intelligence officer, as was the author, and that another persona is a dead ringer for Le Carre's father, a notorious con man named Ronald Cornwell...
Cynics might say that he did it for the publicity, and cynics might be right. But a fair reading of the novel suggests more complex motives. A Perfect Spy has all the strengths and some of the weaknesses of an extended emotional purge: intensity, authenticity, flashes of black humor, a tendency to camp on obsessions and nurse the morose. Le Carre's job is not easy. In order finally to put his father to rest with forgiveness and love, he must first disinter the scoundrel, who died in 1975. Draped in the same checkered past as Ronald Cornwell, Rickie...
...bureaucratic battle over missile throw-weights would not seem to be the stuff of which best sellers are made. But when the author is Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle, the Administration's outspoken hawk, some publishers are willing to take a chance. Perle wants to write a novel about his arms-control struggles with the more dovish former Assistant Secretary of State Richard Burt, now the U.S. Ambassador to West Germany. Perle has circulated a five-page outline for his first work of fiction, and bidding for the book has reportedly passed...
Laurie Colwin is a writer in love with writing about love. After six books, including her delicate little lyric of a novel, Happy All the Time, she remains as exclusive to her theme as a troubadour and as mordant as a jester...
Osbourn, who graduated from Harvard Law in 1970, wrote The Paper Chase as a largely autobiographical portrayal of the anxiety and tension of his 1 L career. In the novel and film, Hart falls in love with the daughter of his arrogant professor, Charles W. Kingsfield Jr., played in the series by John Houseman. Osbourn admits that the show is "not an accurate reflection of Harvard Law School. It's Paper Chase Law School. It's our law school. I like Harvard better, but I'm very fond of the other...