Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their two children on a visit to his parents in South Africa. His departure leaves the star alone to face her "Long Friends," hallucinatory specters that have attended her since her Louisiana childhood. She must also deal with Dongan Lowndes, an author who once wrote a critically acclaimed first novel and has since settled for prestigious journalistic assignments. He is on the set of The Awakening at the invitation of a nervous producer, who is eager for a culturally affirmative notice from a New York magazine. Walker, on his way down to this troubled scene, knows in advance what benefits...
...brought up in poverty," he notes casually, "and they become cultivated people. Others grow up spoiled rotten with luxury and become guttersnipes." And when Dongan Lowndes, who has fallen heavily off the wagon, says that "the world can get on quite well" without a film version of his novel, Walker offers a laconic thought: "If we get into what the world can do without . . . God knows where...
Robert Ludlum knows what all successful storytellers and hamburger makers know: the public likes consistency. A Ludlum novel reads like a Ludlum novel, just as a Big Mac tastes like a Big Mac. The Bourne Supremacy is doubly familiar. The hairy-chested prose ("No man was a match for him; no eyes, no throat, no groin safe from an assault, swift and agonizing") and the conspiratorial plotting are stock Ludlum. So is the hero, Jason Bourne. Readers of The Bourne Identity (1980) will recognize him as the cover name for David Webb, the American Orientalist who was used to lure...
...mind with TV-news footage of prison violence in Peru: guards shooting inmates who are in the midst of stabbing one another. All these images commingle with recollections of passive, exhibitionistic childhood sex. That is virtually all that happens in Gordon Lish's Peru, an incantatory monologue of a novel. Even the murder may not have happened: police and psychiatrists figure nowhere in the narrative, as they would in the aftermath of a crime. Whether this slight, tightly focused book is a confession, a nightmare or a tease, its mesmeric voice requires, and rewards, a close reading...
Misty Lima, with its quaint colonial architecture and pleasant neighborhoods, is being squeezed by invading slums. Running along a seaside road, a jogger sees servants and municipal workers dumping garbage on the cliffs. In his latest novel, Peru's Mario Vargas Llosa supersedes this real present with a likely future. In the provinces, government forces supported by U.S. Marines battle insurgents backed by the Soviet Union, Cuba and Bolivia. But it is the past that is central to the book. Its narrator is a Vargas Llosa-like writer in search of information for a novel about his former Marxist classmate...