Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Where's Poppa? (1970), Harold and Maude (1971) and, most notably, Rosemary's Baby (1968), for which she won a supporting actress Oscar; of a stroke; in Edgartown, Mass. Talented in many modes, she also wrote two hit plays in the 1940s (Over Twenty-One and Years Ago), a novel (Shady Lady, 1982), three volumes of autobiography and, with her husband of 43 years, Director and Novelist Garson Kanin, a host of antic romances, including the Hepburn-Tracy vehicles Adam's Rib (1949) and Pat and Mike...
...author is drawn to all forms of dissent, whatever the orthodoxy. Although a novelist of established eminence, he chooses to be "unconnected" to conventional literary life: "I don't know other writers or read any literary magazines. I hate reviewing. I don't lecture or give readings. The novel is a print medium, meant to come through the eyes, not the ears. All that readings show you is whether the novelist is a good actor...
...18th century house, Fowles follows a daily regimen of "natural drift" in a jumbled study overlooking the English Channel. He is a fast writer but a slow publisher. Composing "in a haphazard, cockamamy way" on a well-worn manual typewriter, he can turn out a draft of an entire novel in two or three months, but typically holds it for revision over a period of years...
These mysterious events prompt an investigation by a shrewd, vinegary London barrister named Henry Ayscough, acting on behalf of a duke whose son is believed to be the vanished traveler. Most of the novel unfolds through Ayscough's persistent, painstaking inquiry, and it makes gripping reading indeed, part detective story, part crackling courtroom drama. A vivid gallery of the English underclasses passes under the lawyer's scrutiny. Testimony is offered on London brothel life, moonlit rituals at Stonehenge, witchcraft and an odd prefiguring of science fiction in a cavern beneath the Devon moors...
...soft spot for San Francisco. He had spoken of Florida. And he had long been obsessed with Burnt Cabins, Pa., a hamlet about 60 miles southwest of Harrisburg that according to Wiley had been the scene of a bizarre crime in 1965 and was the setting of his novel in progress...