Word: novelled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Growing up ethnic is surely the liveliest theme to appear in the American novel since the closing of the frontier (growing up alienated and getting a divorce are the dreariest). One cheerful result is that Wasps, to the disgust of Nathan Zuckerman's relatives, now know about Jewish families, shnorrers, yentas and all, and that Catholics are knowledgeable about those little ethnicities that Presbyterians possess but do not like to admit to. Northerners understand Southerners, at least on paper, and whites even know something of how life ferments, black among black...
...Another novel featured at the reading, D.H. Lawrence's The Rainbow, had been banned for explicit bedroom scenes...
...Guinness Book of World Records does not have to look further than the sponsor's backyard to find a candidate for the oldest struggle for independence. One character in Peter Maas' richly layered novel of Paddys and Provos says the Irish have been going at it since the 12th century. Tragedies tend to turn into romances over that length of time. Rough madness is temporized...
...19th century hero of this seafaring novel finally completes a laborious journey from England to New South Wales. In transit, Edmund Talbot grows weary of "this seemingly endless voyage"; safely ashore at Sydney Cove, he marvels that he has been at sea for nearly a year. In fact, the trip has taken much longer than that. William Golding first shoved Talbot off dry land in Rites of Passage (1980), which went on to win the Booker Prize, Britain's most coveted award for fiction. After receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983, the author got back to Talbot...
...pictured on the gossip pages with a procession of notable women. He was portrayed by Dustin Hoffman in All the President's Men, based on the Watergate book he co- authored with Bob Woodward, and, as a fictional character, by Jack Nicholson in Heartburn, based on a cleverly barbed novel by his former wife, Nora Ephron. All the while, he was waging an off-and-on struggle with a project that he described to friends as "an account of the witch-hunts leading up to the McCarthy...