Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This theme of domestic neurosis is itself safe, familiar ground for Tyler, whose bestselling Dinner At The Homesick Restaurant portrays with warm, humorous insight, the mixed blessings of family life and its traditional values. The characters in her latest novel bear a strong resemblance to those of the earlier work in terms of their ambivalence toward home. Tyler's sympathies highlight, in particular, the eccentric habits of white middle America: middle-class, middle-aged individuals suspended between "Tips From the Beauty Stars" security measures and childish rebellion. When the glib young Julian, Macon's editor, sails into Macon's sister...
...while there it looked as if readers in the land of the free and the home of the brave were going to be protected from Author Kingsley Amis' 17th novel. Although it had won considerable acclaim when it appeared in England during the spring of 1984, Stanley and the Women did not find U.S. publishers begging for the rights to reprint it. Odd, thought some people, including Amis' literary agent Jonathan Clowes, who offered the novel to three houses only to receive "somewhat embarrassed" turndowns. Representatives from two of the American publishers told Clowes that their negative decisions were made...
...basis of suspected misogyny. But if a few zealous feminists in positions of editorial power did try to squelch Stanley and the Women, they chiefly succeeded in shoring up an old truth: ideologues, of whatever persuasion, make lousy readers of fiction. They want useful truths, whereas good novels offer unbridled and possibly subversive speculations. Amis has excelled at rattling preconceptions ever since the appearance of his classically comic first novel, Lucky Jim, three decades ago. This time out he is near the top of his offensive, infuriating, intolerable and utterly hilarious form...
This routine is violently interrupted by the arrival of Stanley's son Steve. The young man, whom his father has not seen for some time, has begun behaving oddly. He rips up Susan's copy of Saul Bellow's novel Herzog. He pays a call on his mother and hurls an ashtray into the TV set. He tells Stanley that Old Testament patriarchs are spying on him. Stanley phones Cliff Wainwright, a doctor and an old friend, and asks for help with Steve: "I'm afraid he's mad." This judgment is confirmed by Dr. Alfred Nash, a crusty...
...McInerney: Will speak on his new novel Ransom Rabb Lecture Hall, Boston Public Library, Copley Square, 6:00pm...