Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...believe Dolly Kyle Browning, who wrote a vanity-press novel about her alleged affair with Bill Clinton, the White House was so eager to keep her quiet that a top aide approached her to cut a deal. In exchange for agreeing not to publicly use the A words (adultery and affair), Browning told Paula Jones' lawyers, the White House promised that Clinton would not tell any untruths about her and she would be permitted to say that she and Clinton had a 33-year relationship that from time to time included...
...tragically, Coupland crosses that line as well. His prose in this novel is infinitely better than his point, which as the novel progresses comes across more and more as a cartoonish attempt at profundity. While he does touch on themes that ring painfully true regarding modern views on death, technology, loneliness and lack of purpose, too often he mixes them with banal platitudes or smart-ass witticisms that reduce his ideas to the absurd...
...large, much of what motivates the story-line is the author's skilled development of Sarah and Terry's characters. Presented toward the beginning of the novel as a weak young girl, subject to fits of narcolepsy and an emotionally abusive relationship, Sarah undergoes a remarkable transformation throughout the course of the story. By the end, she has become more confident and aware--indeed, more fully understanding of her sexual identity, the trauma she has endured and the pain she has inflicted upon others. Similarly, Terry's metamorphosis from the brash, omniscient film critic to a journalist coming to grips...
...consumed by a desire to live in a sleepless state proceeds in a forced and unconvincing direction. Insinuations that Dudden is little more than a mad scientist whose experiments in the realm of sleep deprivation must be stopped are tiresome and perhaps even inappropriate by the end of the novel; they unnecessarily detract from the strongpresence of Coe's other characters...
...number of vague references toBritish politics and an unconvincing attempt touse a fictitious book of the same title as asymbol of the "dream within a dream," The Houseof Sleep remains a particularly strong story.Its diverse characters effectively confront anumber of modern issues as the reader watches themmature, and the novel's structure allows secretsto remain hidden until precisely the point atwhich they would best be revealed. Keep this storyin mind when you're looking for your nextnighttime read; rest assured, you'll probably begetting a better night's sleep than thecharacters