Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...departure had the gloomy comic overtones of a Graham Greene novel. The last 68 soldiers of the U.S. peacekeeping force were leaving Grenada, accompanied by Jeeps, weapons and their mascot, an island mutt named Butch. As a tropical rainstorm poured down on the Cuban-built Point Salines airport last week, the Royal Grenadian Police band bravely played The Star-Spangled Banner, and Grenadian Prime Minister Herbert Blaize presided over a truncated farewell ceremony from the back of his sedan...
Distance from the war has made such mythologizing possible. When Author David Morrell began shopping his 1972 novel First Blood around Hollywood, the political climate was quite different. Viet Nam movies of the late '70s, like Coming Home and Apocalypse Now, portrayed the war as a largely ignoble enterprise. "The subject matter was a risk," says Morrell. Such heavy Hollywood names as Martin Ritt, Sydney Pollack, Steve McQueen and John / Frankenheimer were involved in various efforts to film the novel. It finally wound up in the hands of two little-known producers, Andrew Vajna and Mario Kassar, who hired Stallone...
...fiction in the self-advertising style of Henry Miller ("The young coeds came up with their hot young bodies and their pilot- light eyes . . ."). Martin offered to pay the author $100 a month if he would quit his postal worker's job and work full time on a novel: "He left on the last working day of 1965. The next time I heard from him was at the end of January when he called to say he'd finished his book...
...analyzing environmental issues that affect the company's home state. Although technology accounts for most of the firm's more than $1 million sales, its environmental and urban planning books are in many libraries. In addition, Kaufmann, like his West Coast colleagues, indulges some personal whims. Gardner's first novel, The Flight of Peter Fromm, written when the author was 59, was rejected by several major houses; Kaufmann found it "hilarious" and published it. The low-selling Almanac of American Letters was issued because the publisher found its collage of literary trivia irresistible. (Items: Horatio Alger was unfit for service...
...Older Women (1965), a fictionalized erotic memoir of an apparently insatiable young man, was rejected by so many publishers that Vizinczey quit his broadcasting job in Toronto and paid to have the book printed. It went on to sell some 3 million copies in eight languages. His second novel, which arrives in the U.S. trailing clouds of praise from England, Germany, Canada and Australia, may do just as well. True, the sex this time around is considerably muted. But moods have changed over the past 20 years, and Vizinczey has cannily kept pace. The prime aphrodisiacs of the ^ '80s seem...