Word: novels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...numbers. "Why not? After all, television mixes apples with astronauts," opined Mailer, 55, who is writing a book about Gary Gilmore, the executed murderer. "It's a new angle," agreed Capote, 53, who is called the "Tiny Terror" for rattling the skeletons of his celebrity friends in his novel-in-progress Answered Prayers. Capote's next book, he says, will be about "a disastrous love affair I had." The T.T.'s proposed literary style: high comedy...
...subtitle, Kitri's Wedding, more accurately describes both the Russian and the Baryshnikov versions. It is based on an episode in the Cervantes novel in which an innkeeper's daughter, Kitri (danced by Gelsey Kirkland), manages to marry her true love, Basil the Barber (Baryshnikov), in defiance of her father, who has a richer son-in-law in mind. The visionary Don Quixote (Alexander Minz) and his faithful Sancho Panza (Enrique Martinez) are on the periphery of the raucous doings but play no real part...
...balance and rhythm of that statement seem characteristic of Vidal at his talk-show best, it is because Teddy O is the author's mouthpiece. Throughout the novel there is a running patter about the things Vidal loves to hate: population growth, women writers who try to write like Henry Miller, hacks, agents, the so-called communications industry, and politicians. By now these subjects are part of the author's reflexology, though as a latter-day Restoration wit he can still bring them to life in cutting caricature...
...reportage and fiction, Ward Just has kept keen watch on the combat of war and politics. Here he extends his reach, trying for a Great American Novel of the heartland. The ingredients of A Family Trust are the stuff of saga. Amos, patriarch of the Rising clan, ascends with his newspaper, the Intelligencer, to the position of flame keeper for his insular Midwest town. His son tries to hold a fort that expands into shopping centers and tract houses. The grandchildren mislay the faith while inheriting the wealth that comes as an ironic dividend of cheapening values...
...author succeeds in conveying a sense of loss without bathos. But his characters are familiar archetypes, and the family's newspaper gives off no scent of soul or sweat; too often the novel suggests the aroma of mothballs. The theme of A Family Trust demands a major treatment; it receives only a compelling outline. As a novelist, Ward Just is still promising rather than delivering...