Word: novels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some reason," he says. "I did Judith Krantz's Till We Meet Again. I was the villainous half-brother Bruno, who rapes Courteney Cox and steals all the family champagne and gives it to the Nazis--fantastic. And there's a very good one based on the Barbara Cartland novel Cupid Rides Pillion. I was the highwayman. When I'm uncomfortable in a role, my voice goes high, so it's quite amusing to see me jump out of the bushes with all my sexy gear on and say"--he squeaks--'Stand and deliver...
...Paper Chase, a novel-turned-movieabout Harvard Law School (HLS), may have neverbeen written if it were not for Alfred...
Alfred proceeded to make a few changes, andOsborn, who was thrilled at Alfred's enthusiasm,spent the next weekend working on the novel...
...instant, in our accelerated, data-filled information culture, and the longing for those graces that belong to a more spacious time. Perhaps people crave, and are demanding, a return to something deeper, or less of the moment. The surprise best seller of two years ago--a serious literary novel by a first timer, no less--was a retelling of The Odyssey in the culture of the Civil War (with a flavor directly taken from the Taoist hermits of old China). It was replaced by another debut novel set, for nearly all its 428 pages, in the teahouses of Kyoto...
Watson himself does not speak in the first two novels (the second is Lost Man's River), which are told as conflicting reports by townspeople. Thus the concluding novel, Bone by Bone (Random House; 410 pages; $26.95), which is Watson's own first-person account, appears after 900 pages of teasing preamble. Because the author has advertised his main character as a monstrous enigma, he must now provide the monster. But Watson's villainy doesn't reach heroic stature. He is a likable bully and a good shot. Most notably, he is a brutal drunk. "When I give...