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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)Originally published as a book for children, Watership Down made Richard Adams's name as a novelist by becoming one of the leading bestsellers of the 1970s. Set in the rabbit world of the English countryside, it is...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)The narrator of Marilyn French's phenomenally best-selling first novel, The Women's Room, leaves the subject of men's pain "to those who know and understand it, to Philip Roth and Saul Bellow and John Updike and poor...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)Louis Auchincloss is among the few dedicated novelists of manners at work in contemporary America. He is a successor to Edith Wharton as a chronicler of the New York aristocracy. In this role he necessarily imbues his...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)In an introduction to an essay collection, Shrovetide in Old New Orleans, Ishmael Reed says: "Many people here called my fiction muddled, crazy, incoherent, because I've attempted in fiction the techniques and forms...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)One striking feature of Susan Hill's novels is the wide-ranging diversity of the experience they depict; and another, a maturity of understanding remarkable in a writer who began publishing her work at the age of only...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)Chinua Achebe established his reputation with Things Fall Apart, one of the first novels to be published in post-independence Africa. It was admired for many reasons, notably the tragic profundity of its theme and the...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)Saul Bellow is the most distinguished novelist of the post war period in America. He is the most intellectual of American novelists, but one who, paradoxically, relies finally upon imagination and feeling; in the...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)Sinclair Ross is primarily a chronicler of life on the Canadian prairies, and his first novel, As for Me and My House, seems destined to become established as a classic of prairie realism, along with the novels of...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)The contrast between The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea, with its local "realism," and Tourmaline, which makes a symbolic landscape out of Randolph Stow's native land, indicates the initial range of his fiction. The...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)David Lodge's novels use and stay close to material that he knows well. Without being overtly autobiographical, they often draw on personal experience: a lower-middle-class South London childhood and adolescence in The...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)Joseph Heller has a better claim than any other American to having written the definitive novel of modern war—if universal response to his definition of that war is any measure. People now know as "catch-22" the circular...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)A formal distinction between fiction and non-fiction, or between fiction and journalism, is not the most helpful way to approach either the direction or the value of Norman Mailer's work. Involving himself directly with...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)The ancient and undulating landscape of the Orkney islands forms more than a backcloth to the work of George Mackay Brown: it provides motif upon motif for most of his novels and short stories, informing them with a...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)Michael Ondaatje wanted to call Secular Love, his seventh book of poetry, a novel, but of his three prose works, only In the Skin of a Lion can be clearly identified as a novel: Sam Solecki notes that Ondaatje once...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)The sheer quantity and range of Joyce Carol Oates's writing is impressive: 22 novels since her first, With Shuddering Fall (1964), in addition to numerous volumes of short stories, poems, plays, and criticism. She...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)A Fly mounted a curtain in the sun, and the fly's shadow mounted the shadow of lace, like a dream threading a dream. The Trouble of One House Reversing conventional causation, Brendan Gill's...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)A comparison of Toni Morrison with Joyce and Faulkner is irresistible. One dominant aspect of her work is an exhaustive, mythical exploration of place. Another is the search for the nexus of past and present. She is to...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)Paul Auster has frequently been called a "postmodern" novelist, partly because, one suspects, critics don't know what else to call a writer whose works include metaphysical detective stories, an anti-utopian fantasy, an...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)John Edgar Wideman is one of the few novelists who emerged in the Black Power era without sacrificing the demands of art to the persuasions of radical militancy. Possibly as a result of his commitment to craft, his...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)Elmore Leonard is one of those rare authors who began as a pulp writer and ended top of the bestseller lists. More impressive, however, is his feat of moving from being considered a mere genre novelist to being credited...