Word: tenderness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...TENDER by Mark Childress...
...least all those folks called him by his name. For Mark Childress, Elvis is Leroy Kirby. The name is a down-home rendering of the French for Presley's nickname, "the King," but that's about the extent of the trouble taken to adjust the facts for fictional purposes. Tender is meant to be a biographical novel, but it reads more like an overextended vamp on a folk hero...
...Recall, wants to astonish jaded audiences with its special-effects audacity. But adult sexuality, even when investigated as discreetly as it is in Henry & June, is deemed objectionable. "You can cut off a breast," says Kaufman, "but you can't caress it. The violent majority is dictating to a tender minority...
...police in 1985. Age of Iron by J.M. Coetzee -- South Africa, with cancer as a metaphor for apartheid. Rabbit at Rest by John Updike -- Harry Angstrom hops offstage, perhaps to meet his maker. The Further Inquiry by Ken Kesey -- The head Prankster rerolls the legendary cross-country bus trip. Tender by Mark Childress -- For the character Leroy Kirby, read Elvis Presley. Orrie's Story by Thomas Berger -- The author of Little Big Man retells the Greek Oresteia as a small-town tragedy...
Just when he was supposed to be over the hill, the fireballing pitcher for the Texas Rangers chalks up a record sixth no-hitter -- at the tender...