Word: novels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pharaoh Ikhnaton is usually described in comparative-religion courses as a brief but glorious false dawn of theological enlightenment. Novelist Stacton will have none of this. In an astringent tale that examines men's motives and man's fate as closely-and coldly-as any historical novel in recent years, he presents his own view of the matter...
...Balcony is the second of a set of three novels by 34-year-old Author Stacton, an American who was born in Nevada and now travels widely. His first novel, Remember Me, about the mad Ludwig II of Bavaria, was published in England, where it won critical acclaim. Most readers of the current novel will eagerly await the third, to be published in the U.S. later this month. Entitled Segaki, it concerns a 14th century Japanese monk and his search for wisdom...
Advise and Consent, by Allen Drury. New York Timesman Drury's novel about politicking in Washington is sometimes as heavy as a Times thinkpiece, but it provides a dandy guessing game: Taft, Krishna Menon and Truman are recognizable, but who, for instance, is the high-positioned skirt chaser...
...Possessors (Filmsonor Intermondia: Lopert) are all members of one big unhappy family who made their first appearance in Maurice Druon's Les Grandes Families, a 1948 Prix Goncourt novel based on some of the Two Hundred Families that presumably ruled France between the two World Wars...
Advise and Consent, by Allen Drury. New York Timesman Drury's novel about politicking in Washington is sometimes as heavy as a Times thinkpiece, but it provides a dandy guessing game: Taft, Khrishna Menon and Truman are recognizable, but who, for instance, is the high-positioned skirt-chaser...