Word: novels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...morning seven weeks ago, bankers, corporate treasurers and speculators suddenly wanted to sell dollars, causing a mindless two-day dollar run. Washington policymakers are still frightened by the episode because they have no idea why it started. While not predicting The Crash of 79, the dramatic title of a novel that foretold the collapse of Western civilization after a dollar disaster, Henry Kaufman, a partner in Wall Street's Salomon Bros., warns that the attack on the dollar "has placed the entire international monetary system in jeopardy...
...came down to a perfectly written finish, like something out of a Thomas Hardy novel...
After playing the bumbling Inspector Clouseau in five Pink Panther pictures, Peter Sellers is reveling in his role as the dashing playboy King of Ruritania in a new film version of Anthony Hope's 1894 novel, The Prisoner of Zenda. "I rather enjoy being called Your Majesty all day," says Sellers. He is especially pleased at getting the royal treatment from his real-life wife, Lynne Frederick, 24, who co-stars in the film as the king's betrothed, Princess Flavia. So enamored is Sellers of his new cinematic self, a role made memorable by Ronald Colman...
Blindness looks like the best first novel of the year, except that the year is 1926. That was when the book appeared briefly in England and the U.S. before sinking from view. Its author was Henry Yorke, a wealthy young Oxford student who went on to write eight more novels under the pseudonym Henry Green. Although he never achieved widespread popularity before his death in 1973, Green did not labor in quite the obscurity that his circle of admirers claim; his novel Loving, published in the U.S. in 1949, flirted briefly with the bestseller list. But even his most dedicated...
With his hero's accident, Green transforms the novel from a typical schoolboy memoir into a remarkably mature meditation on losses and gains. He slips easily into the minds and emotions of characters around Haye: the boy's stepmother, an old nanny, the sad, slightly vulgar daughter of an unfrocked clergyman. All, in varying ways, must struggle to cope with the presence of a person to whom the intolerable has happened. He too must struggle to grow into his tragedy...