Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rest of the novel is simply a working out of what has been said and left unsaid at this funeral supper (congratulations to the widow are unspoken, of course), it's not the worst way to tell a story. One plot contrivance, however, seems awkward: as a young man, we're told, Billy fell loony in love with Eva, a visitor from Ireland, and after she went home, sent her passage money to return and marry him. For years he believed (as his best friend had told him, inventing the tale to protect the sanity of a fragile romantic) that...
...terrible year for physically unattractive writers of literary novels. Even Al Gore didn't have such a bad year compared with physically unattractive writers of literary novels. In the publishing industry, the term "literary novel" is used to distinguish serious attempts at fiction from novels like, say, Love Story--the trash classic that the aforementioned Gore got in Dutch for suggesting was based partly on him. (The mix-up, as I understand it, came from Gore's impression that he was the model for the main character, Oliver Barrett IV, when in fact he'd been the model...
Although there is often one novel by someone like Updike or DeLillo on the Best Sellers' list, most literary novels sell modestly. But in 1997 news stories reported that many publishing houses, under bottom-line pressure from conglomerate bosses, were becoming unwilling to publish writers with modest sales...
...that enough to discourage some overweight and pasty-faced scribbler who's hard at work on a coming-of-age novel set in Sandusky, Ohio, between the wars? Not in itself. He's fueled by the unshakable belief that his novel, Hortense Be Thy Name, is good enough to overcome any odds...
...author knows that he has a jacket-photo problem that is beyond help from spa cuisine. Dejected, he slinks from the editor's office. The editor immediately goes into a meeting, and the first book discussed is a literary novel by Al Gore. After Gore's campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination petered out, mainly because of some problems that had started in 1997, he had turned to writing...