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...QUESTIONS: Jimmy Carter explains why he wrote a novel and assesses Dean's chances...
Jimmy Carter has always been proud of his breadth of achievement: nuclear engineer, farmer, U.S. President, humanitarian and 2002 Nobel Peace Prize winner. Now, with The Hornet's Nest, his novel about the Revolutionary War, he has turned to fiction. The reviews were gently tough, but speaking with TIME's Massimo Calabresi, Carter showed that, as always, he's ready for a fight...
...WRITE A NOVEL AFTER EVERYTHING ELSE YOU'VE TACKLED? I wanted to tell a kind of ignored story about the most important war in which America's ever been involved. And I wanted to do it in a highly personal way so that I could describe the torture that went on within the hearts and minds of 25% of the inhabitants of America--all British citizens--who finally made a decision to break away from the King of England. Also, it was kind of a challenge to me. I was ready to try something...
...center of the novel is Rizalina, a sweet and resilient servant girl, who comes to Manila to work as a servant for Zamora L?pez de Legazpi, a rich man who claims to have discovered a group of Stone Age cave dwellers in the country's south. (Hagedorn's inspiration for this plot line is the real-life "discovery" of the Tasaday tribe in 1971, later denounced as a hoax.) Rizalina concludes that Zamora has become uncomfortably enamored with her, and she runs away to become a dancer in a seedy go-go bar. There she meets Vincent Moody, an American...
...Ever since her debut novel, The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan's fiction has sought to unweave the tangled web of family memory and to trace those threads that span continents?Asia and North America?and generations. Tan's stolid Chinese mothers are the repositories of those tightly bound reminiscences; to their conflicted daughters falls the duty of unraveling them. The Opposite of Fate is an attempt to pull at some of the loose ends, with added ruminations on the quirks of celebrity authorship, recollections of rocking-and-rolling with Stephen King and an inevitable (and forgettable) commencement address...