Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Pamela Thomas-Graham '85 is a woman who does it all. Five months pregnant, the McKinsey & Company partner with a joint J.D.-M.B.A. degree from Harvard's Law and Business Schools spoke last evening about her latest opus, a mystery novel set at Harvard...
...always, a poignant memory of the perfect woman, long ago or never. ("Bobby," says the dying cop in Homicide, "you remember that girl that time?") But at 50, Mamet has other concerns. The overtly serious work tends to be about Jewishness (in his play The Old Neighborhood and novel The Old Religion); the nastily comic, about man's love of the scam (the card-shark show Ricky Jay & His 52 Assistants, recently off-Broadway, and this spiffy new film...
...into the parched interior of Australia, taking care to lug extra fuel, water and minor spare parts, enter a region of outback so distant and featureless that it lies beyond the reassuring certitude of maps. So says Australian novelist Janette Turner Hospital at the outset of her grim, millennial novel Oyster (Norton; 400 pages; $25.95). Such travelers--an Australian father, say, and an American stepmother, joining forces to track down backpacking adult children who had disappeared months before--would soon become disoriented. Even in their car they would be dazed by heat and a pervading stench from the reeking carcasses...
Mercy knows only part of what then happened, and most of her memories are too terrible for her to face directly. So the reader, like the parents who have found their way to Outer Maroo, is disoriented for much of the novel, menaced by half-understood threats, never sure what ground is solid. The horror here is peeked at slantwise, through a girl's splayed fingers. What appears to be true is that Oyster bound dozens of young believers into a cult whose elements included an underground life of opal mining, ecstatic prayer and patriarchal sex. And that...
NICHOLSON BAKER His novel Vox appears in a Starr subpoena. So there is a future in being a literary mid-list writer...