Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Parent's secrets are mainly sexual, a subject that arouses an immediate interest but can be hard to sustain for 500 pages. Happily, Theroux's hero is a man of ironic intelligence and amusing self-awareness. He believes that comedy is the "highest expression of truth" and, conversely, that the funniest things are frequently the truest. This makes for considerable humor arising from grim situations. Moreover, Parent's wanderlust means a frequent change of scenery and a liberating sense that, as the playwright Tom Stoppard put it, every exit is an entrance somewhere else...
Vukonich wasn't far from the truth. With 63 points, Ciavaglia averaged just under two points per game during Harvard's 31-3 season. He topped the Crimson in scoring for the second-straight season--netting 33 points and Harvard Rookie of the Year honors as a freshman...
...would be a better story if he had signed "Henry Diefendorfer," but the truth is he wrote "Hank Aaron." Too bad. Diefendorfers are going through the roof...
...Spenser, the soft-centered hard-guy detective, soon discovers a grubbier scandal. Nobody at Taft will admit it, but the team's star power forward has been passed through his courses for nearly four years despite the fact that he can't read. Spenser is shocked -- he believes in truth, honor and grade-point averages -- and he sets out to discover which lizards, tenured and not, are responsible. The reader puts up his feet and gets comfortable. That's a bad sign. Too much comfort, too little doubt. In the early Spenser books, everyone was edgy. Now hero, victim...
...writing." He also downplayed his own participation in that story, adding, "I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself...