Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Coors double-teams, with both a diversity task force and a diversity management group. Among the unlikely recipients of its corporate largesse are a black-heritage festival, the Mi Casa resource center for women and even a romance novel the company commissioned in 1993 in a good-hearted but weird effort to promote literacy. (Perfect, by Judith McNaught, tells the story of a foster child who "overcomes illiteracy to find true love," as the promotional material says.) The firm contends that it was the first U.S. brewer to have rabbis certify its suds as kosher. "Coors Cares," bleats a company...
...superb interviewer himself," admits Gray. "And then there's the issue of what to wear." Gray put on his best suit to meet the author, whom he found "extraordinarily gracious and extremely well dressed." Gray, who on average reads three books a week, says Wolfe's latest novel, A Man in Full, offers "a deep look at society without skimping on pizazz and wretched excess." JOEL STEIN, who wrote this week's article on the Yankees, never played Little League. "I was afraid of the other kids," he admits. He joined the soccer team only because his parents insisted that...
...megayield critical and commercial success of The Bonfire of the Vanities in 1987 made Tom Wolfe a rich and very gratified author indeed. That big, boisterous novel, his first, proved a point that he had been arguing, much to the annoyance of literary folks, for years: American fiction could still portray the hectic complexities of contemporary social life, could still capture the textures and rhythms of a seething modern city, if novelists would just leave their desks, maybe take a sabbatical from their professorships in creative writing and go out and report on the fabulous stuff taking place all around...
...loved freaks," Lily learns early in her life when a sow gives birth to a deformed offspring, and certainly everyone in the novel seems hermetically sealed as protection against the lack of love. But as in Luke's last name, "Hamsun--like handsome but back to front," the aesthetics of beauty are reversed as we are engaged by the characters. Our judgmental instincts cast to one side, we become open. We love these freaks...
...engaging characters and the refreshing lines of description and dialogue of Wide Open have garnered high praise since its release in the United Kingdom about six months ago; this Stateside release is an excellent trans-Atlantic introduction to the ferocious originality of Nicola Barker's work. It is a novel into which, like Ronny listening to a story of Jim's we are "slowly, safely, surely, soundly" hooked...