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Word: novelized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lourie's novel purports to be a memoir that Stalin left behind, stashed in a crawl space above the room where he died in 1953. In hard, flat, ruthless prose that is also sometimes horribly funny, Lourie's Stalin, supposedly writing in 1938-39, directs an operation to seek out and assassinate his nemesis, Leon Trotsky, then bunkered in Mexico City, raising rabbits and plotting a comeback...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In The Name Of Evil | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

...search of a juicy beach book that you need not be embarrassed to be seen with at the most exclusive resort? Get your hands on City of Light, a full-to-the-brim first novel. Set in turn-of-the-century Buffalo, N.Y.--a city that's being electrified, literally, by the new turbines at Niagara Falls--the book is part mystery and part historical melodrama, fluently mixing fact and fiction, with the sort of Victorian plot devices that guarantee a straight-through, sleepless read. The novel is no Ragtime, but it's close--an operatic potboiler, fat with romance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: City Of Light | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

...1960s, Atwood studied the Puritans under former Cabot Professor of American Literature Perry Miller--to whom she dedicated the novel...

Author: By Rosalind S. Helderman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Grave New World | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

Atwood has warned against reading too much into the setting of various parts of her novel. Once asked to identify a particular scene of the novel, she responded instead with a joke...

Author: By Rosalind S. Helderman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Grave New World | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

...despite Cambridge's religious past, filmmaker Volker Schlondorff, who helped adapt the story for the screen in 1990, says the city's more recent decidedly left-of-center leanings also make it appropriate for the novel...

Author: By Rosalind S. Helderman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Grave New World | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

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