Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...always looked to find my sense of family there." In Providence, Hall gathered an ensemble whose members remained season after season. Their loyalty proved vital during the showdown with the Trinity board, which had grown impatient with his explicitly erotic work, especially an adaptation of the James Purdy novel Eustace Chisholm and the Works that featured a graphic abortion and an unabashed homosexual sensibility. When the board ousted him, the actors boycotted and led a community protest. The upshot was that Hall "fired" the board, replacing them with backers of his vision...
...audience of about 35 students listened to McInerney recite episodes of random violence, drug abuse, drunkeness and social alienation that make up his best selling first novel Bright Lights, Big City...
Instead, his recently released second novel, "Ransom," was based on his experiences while living in Japan. "I tried to write it for ten years. Working on it is how I learned how to write," he said...
McInerney has written a screenplay for the movie version of Bright Lights, and he recently began work on his third novel. Screenwriting, he said, "is not like writing a novel--it's camel by committee time--but the perks are great...
This and similarly graphic scenes serve to frame the novel's artfully related subjects: the fiction writer's need to acknowledge the deceitful nature of his craft, and the political activist's need to convince himself that his ideology is the only truth. The tragedy of Alejandro Mayta is that the give-and-take of public affairs is too perplexing for his blind faith. Like the narrator, he cannot escape the comic ironies that respect no certitudes. When free as an Andean condor, Mayta is a dedicated Communist. Imprisoned, he is a revolutionary whose zeal leads to reforming the convicts...