Word: novella
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...Lucy, Carroll's granddaughter, takes over in a truly venomous fashion, and the book strives embarrassingly to become a Midwestern Madame Bovary. It is bewildering that a writer as gifted as Roth could devote so much effort to so trivial a heroine; the high promise of his 1959 novella Goodbye, Columbus is still unfulfilled...
...dramatic series Stage 67 has been the mail-order bride of the current season-so lovely in anticipation, so disappointing in actuality. Last week the frump finally combed her hair and put on a touch of lipstick. In a spare, dust-dry dramatization of Katherine Anne Porter's novella Noon Wine, Adapter-Director Sam Peckinpah in a single swoop revived much of the all-but-dead hope that serious drama can find a regular place in the TV schedule...
Like most musicals, the show has many fathers. Christopher Isherwood wrote the plot first as a novella, Goodbye to Berlin. John van Druten adapted it in the 1951 Broadway hit I Am a Camera, with Julie Harris playing Heroine Sally Bowles, a girl as wispy, wayward and vulnerable as the smoke at the end of her jaunty cigarette holder. A still different set of foster parents put their mark on Cabaret. It is a montage of the bloatedly satiric cartoons of George...
...STAGE 67 (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Katherine Anne Porter's novella, Noon Wine, takes on added body with performances by Jason Robards Jr., Olivia de Havilland, Per Oscarsson and Theodore Bikel...
...Hara is a methodical worker, using the summer months for short stories and execrable golf, and the fall, winter and spring for novels, hence the title Waiting for Winter. The stories in this new collection, ranging from a brief seven-page look at an ugly marriage to the novella-length Natica Jackson, add up to a fine job of summer's work...