Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rarely sees his grandchildren. Maureen Reagan is, like her father, a conservative, but also has been an outspoken feminist. Her free-spirited half sister Patti Davis, who uses her mother's maiden name, has had tumultuous but unsuccessful careers in acting and music. She has come out with a novel, Home Front, a thinly disguised autobiography about growing up as the daughter of an actor who becomes Governor of California and then President. The revealing book focuses on the love-hate emotions of a girl toward her detached father and cold mother. The heroine writes a poem to her father...
...collaborator in his own misfortune. Shaw, Max Beerbohm, Frank Harris and the Edwardian elite are given delightful cameo roles, and the prose has the appropriate drawing-room astringency: Shaw and Wilde might have been close friends "if they only had less in common." If this is a novel with an excess of surface, that was, after all, its subject's salient feature. The important part, as Wilde would insist, is that the thing glitter. And so it does...
This is a novel written in blood and Inc. The author has been a speechwriter for Lee Iacocca, Gerald Ford and the chairman of the board of American Motors, and he has manifestly spent many hours with Kafka's In the Penal Colony and Orwell's dystopian visions. Walker's central figure, a nameless public relations man for a major corporation, is getting stale. The company packs him off for behavioral conditioning. Walker is not much on acronyms: the victim is made to undergo PAR--Positive Attitudinal Reinforcement--and SAD--Supervisory Aptitude Development. But the forced seminars ring with comic...
...appeal of an island is older than prose. It is a universal symbol, as valid for the isolated state as for the besieged heart. In this lean, piercing novel, Lisa Grunwald renews the metaphor by making Sanders Island, off Cape Cod, Mass., a garden and a desert. The narrator, Jennifer Burke, is the younger daughter of what seems an ideal couple: Milo and Lulu Burke are so devoted that they have always refused to fly in separate planes because "they wouldn't have wanted to go on without each other...
Instead, the President chose to express his own novel idea that perhaps "fraud could have been occurring on both sides...