Word: novella
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Glimp's enormous influence on other artists can only be described as enormously influential. Hemingway was suspected of lifting passages in A Farewell to Arms from Glimp's novella Say Goodbye to Your Feet, a tender love story set amid the depravities of the Bulgarian-Estonian war. Visiting Paris one weekend, Glimp told the young Salvador Dali, "I like the watches, but why are they all so hard? A watch should be soft." Later that day, he bumped into Henry Miller and startled him by shouting, "Your stuff is boring! Get some sex into it!" Once asked about Cubism...
...Sloper aside, though, over a century of readers and viewers have wanted to listen to Catherine. Washington Square, the Henry James novella from which the story derives, was one of the author's earliest successes, and Agnieszka Holland's recent film adaptation, still playing at Kendall Square Cinema, opened last month to much critical acclaim...
...novella is the orphan of contemporary fiction. Too lengthy for modern magazines and too short for penny-pinching publishers, this middle-distance literary form rarely gets hardbound as a single offering. Now the Pulitzer-prizewinning author Richard Ford has published three novellas in one volume...
...over the past 30 or so years. A sixth is scheduled to arrive in bookstores this fall, but the wait should be soothed by Bear and His Daughter (Houghton Mifflin; 222 pages; $24), a collection of six Stone short stories that have appeared in magazines plus a previously unpublished novella that gives the new volume its name. All seven pieces demonstrate, in concentrated form, the qualities that make Stone's novels so harrowing, exhilarating and impossible to forget...
...Stone's stories is in fact called Absence of Mercy; nearly all his people believe themselves cut off from any possible solace and forgiveness. The novella Bear and His Daughter portrays the explosive meeting of two such lost souls: a drunken poet on a reading tour in the Mountain States and his illegitimate daughter, who is now 31 and a park ranger packing a pistol. Her boyfriend, fearing what may come of the father's visit, tells her, "I hope God helps you. You should...