Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Absolutely right. But Finnegan's book, a status report on the American Dream, gets its power the way a good novel does: from sheer story--the unpredictable, rich specifics of people's lives. Alas, every syllable of the book rings true...
Inventing a terrorist conspiracy and then setting it in contemporary Jerusalem may seem a coals-to-Newcastle sort of enterprise. Why bother with make-believe when the reality is so vivid and convoluted? Robert Stone provides an engrossing answer in his sixth novel, Damascus Gate (Houghton Mifflin; 500 pages; $26). All of Stone's previous fiction has featured heroes whose problems are implicitly religious. Their pathologies--the heavy ingestion of drugs and booze, the habit of seeking or stumbling into serious, life-threatening trouble--stem from their uneasy sense that God still exists, but not for them. Damascus Gate makes...
...ride down the other side more than justifies the climb. Stone's skill at contriving apocalyptic conclusions was visible in his first novel, A Hall of Mirrors (1967), and he maintained this standard for more than three decades. Not even his dedicated readers will be able to foresee the twists and impact of this new novel. Damascus Gate is a transcendent thriller...
...billion-apiece KH-12 satellites the Pentagon has in orbit are like Hubble space telescopes pointed back to earth. From 164 miles up, their optical sensors can snap clear photographs of objects no larger than a paperback novel on the ground. The two Lacrosse satellites, same price tag, with solar-power panels that stretch the length of half a football field, have radar-imaging cameras that can see through clouds and even the dust storms that swirl around India's Pokhran test site. In a crisis, at least one of the four birds can be positioned over a target...
...that one doubts the purity of purpose that led Redford to The Horse Whisperer, based on Nicholas Evans' best-selling, critically dissed novel about an uncannily simpatico wrangler. His patient ministrations are needed to restore psychological wholeness to Pilgrim and, more important, to Grace (Scarlett Johansson), the horse's adolescent rider, after a bloody confrontation with a truck on an icy road...