Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...almost as if Vonnegut wrote a novel, decided it was crap, then wrote a sort of disjointed memoir over it, using elements of the original book to illustrate (or simply to accompany) assorted observations and opinions...
...plug just before the book went to press. His reason, as he explained at the Brattle Theatre Tuesday night, was that he "didn't know what the hell it was about." Suddenly one book short of a three-book contract, Vonnegut spent the next few years overhauling the novel, drastically paring down the original "temporal anomaly" plot and filling the void with personal remembrances and ruminations...
...pain-treatment service came about because Berde and colleague Navil Sethna, faced with patients who had seemingly intractable problems, devised novel solutions, and because other doctors began to seek them out. One of their first cases was an 18-year-old boy with cancer. Suddenly, the boy's pain had spun out of control. "In three days he went from no morphine to 400 milligrams an hour, which is a pretty industrial dose," says Berde. "A normal amount might be 3 milligrams an hour...
...novel psychological theories of the great (and imaginary) psychiatrist Dr. Laszlo Kreizler seem a bit further from the center of things here than they did in The Alienist. True, he affronts received opinion by postulating that a woman, because of her treatment in childhood, may be quite capable of murdering her own children and those of others. He helps trap the woman he has described. But for the trial to go forward he must declare her sane, a judgment that would have seemed as mushy at the beginning of the Freudian era as it does now. For a long stretch...
...first novel since the Pulitzer-prizewinning The Stone Diaries (1995), Carol Shields takes on the burden of eliciting interest in a rather unprepossessing hero. Larry's Party (Viking; 339 pages; $23.95) offers 15 chapters, each of which has the stand-alone feel of a short story, excerpting details from the imagined life of one Larry Weller...