Word: novels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...awakened to the melodramatic aspects of the production when a ninth-grader asked about the photographs of stacked, starved bodies shown to Nazi Dorf during the last installment. "What happened to those people? Why did they look like that?" he asked. Many youngsters saw Holocaust more as a swashbuckling novel than as a historical atrocity...
...evangelist in America is a vicious, foulmouthed, whisky-swilling slob who carries on a flagrant liaison with a pea-brained wench. He treats his preacher son like dirt and shells out cash here and there to hush up his scandals. That's the protagonist of Miracle, a squalid novel by Dotson Rader (Random House...
...some cases the preposterous plots are exceeded by the presumptuous flackery. Templeton's publishers announce that during his promotional tour he will "break the last taboo on national TV." Rader's novel was unveiled at a Manhattan disco with a gospel sing-along starring Norman Mailer, Truman Capote, William F. Buckley and Walter Cronkite. Stein & Day let it be known that The Final Conclave was printed under extraordinary security lest it be "suppressed." By whom? The publisher didn't say; surely a banning in Boston or a burning in Butte would have hyped the book...
This first novel is commemoration of and tribute to some forgotten victims of the Nazi death camps: the gypsies of Eastern Europe. If the world is touched by the plight of the Jews, writes Stefan Kanfer. "what are we to say to a people totally annihilated or scattered, with no testament or psalms to calibrate the deep well of the past, no compensatory county, no telethons, no bond rallies, no touring orchestras...no prophets except the ones in the store windows who tell fortunes for a dollar...
...question is asked by the novel's vibrant, sorrowful hero. Benoit Kaufman, a Romany who survives the concentration camps as a boy to become a successful protraitist of the rich and famous. Yet, unable to shake his past. Ben finally dedicates himself to avenge all those men, women, and children who were shot, gassed and incinerated. The specific object of his wrath is a fellow gypsy, a former Nazi collaborator who saved his own life by participating in the slaughter of others...