Word: proses
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...century ("You are the only real life there was: everything else was a drug to keep me going until you were with me"). Yet showcasing these letters gives us a sexual Greene at the expense of a mischievous Greene or the anguished Catholic Greene. And each time Greene's prose appears on the page, Sherry's seems more prosaic by comparison...
...wants to build a home of his own, then in 1979, with A Bend in the River, the story of Salim, an Indian in Africa who tries to start a new life despite the anarchy spreading through the continent. Naipaul's protagonists were new to English literature, but his prose had the opposite virtue: simple and severe, it had a classical elegance that many felt had gone out of fiction since the literary experimentation of Modernism. As his novels grew darker, readers found a philosophy behind his work, a vision of the world as a relentless pressure that...
...hand, Kuper wisely does away with the anti-climactic Socialist agitprop that made up the last few chapters of the original book. Instead he ends on the hope of a new beginning. While certainly no substitute for the original, Kuper's adaptation makes for a fine compliment to the prose novel, and a worthwhile work in its own right...
...Like Vic, Winton was born in 1960, a policeman's son who moved from Perth to the south coast as a boy. Unlike Vic, the author hasn't much to be disappointed by. With a cabinet of literary trophies for his clean, muscular prose (Nicole Kidman is negotiating to star in an adaptation of his 2002 Miles Franklin Award?winning Dirt Music), this former small-town boy is the ultimate sea-changer. Yet in The Turning, Winton presides as the deity of disappointment - from the opening lines of the first story, Big World, where two beachcombing mates graduate from high...
...particular, feel padded out. And reading about the marital difficulties of Vic and Gail can be as interesting as a bout of unsuccessful whale watching, to which his characters are also prone. Otherwise, trimmed of its middle-aged spread, The Turning is as lissome as Winton's best prose...