Word: novels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Four stores, the Coop, Harvard Book Store, Paperback Booksmith, and Words Worth, cited "The Women's Room" by Marilyn French, a novel whose story begins in a Sever Hall restroom and goes on to study women of this generation, as a heavy seller...
...novel is the autobiographical story of the author's changing relationship with her mother through the years...
Barkley also mentioned Herman Wouk's World War II novel "War and Remembrance" as a current success...
They are the pampered slaves of enervating rituals, of which this dinner party is one. Perhaps Doctorow himself has attended one too many of these gatherings since he attained renown with his bestselling novel Ragtime. If so, he has achieved a suitable revenge. Before he flashes the handgun, Edgar (Christopher Plummer), the garrulous gadfly of the group, says quite flatly, "I can't believe that you still believe in the lives we lead...
...youth does not dwell on this point, and McEwan never links Jack's pathology to society at large. Preachiness and moralizing would only direct attention away from the immediacy that is the novel's strongest suit. Seen from the inside, the characters are simply beleaguered children trying to cope and, ultimately, failing. Outsiders find their degeneration criminal; the book shows the inadequacy of such a judgment. Aberrant acts fascinate because of their strangeness, and those who perform them are rarely able to make their reasons clear. The Cement Garden suggests that the most terrifying thing about such behavior...