Word: novelled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This seems to portend more than what follows, which is a long, fairly routine mini-series of a novel. Without appearing to have much on his mind, the author follows the adventures of three families -- one Welsh, one Russian- American, one Jewish-English -- through three wars. The founding patriarch is a young ship's cook, a Welshman named David Jones, first seen surviving the sinking of the Titanic. He meets and marries a beautiful Russian immigrant named Ludmila in New York City, resettles in England, volunteers for the army, is mistakenly reported dead in World...
INCLINE OUR HEARTS by A.N. Wilson (Viking; $17.95). A London child is orphaned by German bombs during World War II and sent to live with relatives in the English countryside. What follows is a seriocomic autobiographical novel about coming of age in an age deucedly difficult to understand...
AMERICAN APPETITES by Joyce Carol Oates (Dutton; $18.95). A prolific author's powerful novel about a well-to-do married couple falling before an unearned fate...
...viewers will get the chance to judge for themselves next month, when CBS broadcasts Motown's first mini-series, the eight-hour Lonesome Dove. Starring Robert Duvall, Anjelica Huston and Danny Glover, the series is based on Larry McMurtry's best-selling 1985 novel about a 19th century cattle drive. The epic will air on four consecutive nights, starting...
...quickly one progresses these days from anonymity to notoriety to fame. And how perfectly Almodovar and his films are suited to this chic spotlight. He is a poor country boy made good: he came to Madrid at 17, fronted a rock band, wrote a porno photo-novel, and for a decade worked for the state phone company, where he wrote the scripts for his first two pictures. He had no fear of leaping from phones to films: "When I wanted to become a director, I became a director." And his films have all the exuberance of somebody who wants...