The death of the novel

The Spectator;  July 26, 2008 ;   Massie, Allan;   752 words ......and, if it could speak, the novel might do the same. Its death has been so often decreed. More...declare that 'we no longer want the Novel as our great-grandfathers did...for fiction has not staled. The novel as entertainment flourishes. Airport...

Choices Made in Love;An Ironic Novel of Birth and Death

The Washington Post;  April 17, 1987 ;   Richard Moran;   690 words ......both melodrama and cynicism-a remarkable achievement in a novel about an extramarital affair with a cancer victim. Despite...no one seems to howl inside with inexhaustible anger at death and self-betrayal. Instead of mapping the dark continent of death and desire, Thurm maps plots. In one of these plots, ...

Ordinary idols.(Death of an Ordinary Man : A Novel)(Book Review)

First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life;  October 1, 2005 ;   Gray, J.A.;   787 words ...DEATH OF AN ORDINARY MAN: A NOVEL By GLEN DUNCAN Grove. 320pp...authority of England's Glen Duncan. Death of an Ordinary Man is Duncan's novel about the delayed flight--or...Hence his suicide. But the novel is called Death of an Ordinary Man. Nathan...

Schaeffer's 7th novel: Making peace with death

Chicago Sun-Times;  September 28, 1986 ;   Molly McQuade;   600 words ......impact with the idea of it. Death makes life unthinkable for...she remains obsessed with death - and therefore unwell in...Fromberg Schaeffer's seventh novel describes their gradual reconciliation, then culminates with the death of the man and Iris's final...although it means she must face ...

Books: Tales of text and death Technology inspires a novel that,...

The Independent - London;  June 1, 2002 ;   Rebecca Loncraine;   425 words ......technologies in his first novel, Black Box, as both powerfully...haunt Walker's story. The novel's narrator is an ex-stewardess...characters are linked to Lin's death in some way. These connections...to use the story of Lin's death to outline the ways in which...this is of course a fear of ...

THE ESSENTIAL MYSTERIES JAYNE ANNE PHILLIPS'S NOVEL PONDERS BIRTH, DEATH,...

The Boston Globe;  May 21, 2000 ;   Gail Caldwell;   787 words ......Dreams," her first novel, delivered the fractured...her most recent novel, managed to convey...year of birth and death _ both primordial...in on her mother's death. When the novel opens, Kate, a 31-year...also staving off death, watches Kate marry...best scenes in the novel ...

EUROPEAN LINDY BURLEIGH IS LEFT COLD BY A PLAYFUL NOVEL ABOUT DEATH

The Sunday Telegraph London;  February 24, 2008 ;   LINDY BURLEIGH;   787 words ......reverse the plot and bring death back. Death, the theme of the novel, becomes its protagonist...flattery. For millennia, death's done things the same...reverse the plot and bring death back. Death, the novel's theme, becomes its protagonist...

Deep Six: A Novel of Life, Death, Deception and Betrayal

Black Issues Book Review;  March 1, 2002 ;   Anonymous;   67 words ...Deep Six: A Novel of Life, Death, Deception and Betrayal by Donna M. Dean Palo Alto Books, July 2001, $14.95 ISBN 1-889-90119-9 A woman's lifeless body is found...

Arts: Death and the maidens First a memoir of Revolutionary Terror, then a...

The Independent - London;  May 19, 1999 ;   Jeremy Sams;   787 words ......suffering. Its publication after her death led in turn to the beatification...Catholic convert, and inspired her novel The Last to the Scaffold (1931...on fact, and their bearing on death and shared martyrdom, that most...Bernanos when he adapted the novel in 1947. This was at the request...

A DEATH WISH COME TRUE SETS UP TOUCHING NOVEL

The Boston Globe;  July 2, 2001 ;   Renee Graham, Globe Staff;   604 words ......Muske-Dukes's "Life After Death," characters tumble through...not only seeking meaning in death, but discovering what remains...uneven but deeply touching novel about loss, which stares...various viewpoints, squarely at death. On the night before Russell...most of those cliches about death ...

Death's histories.(Mortal Remains: Death in Early America)(Killed...

Early American Literature;  January 1, 2004 ;   Cavitch, Max;   787 words ...Mortal Remains: Death in Early America...Killed Strangely: The Death of Rebecca Cornell...in Your Company: A Novel of Lewis and Clark...much attention to death as such. This neglect...and a historical novel--all contribute new...expanding history of death in America. The dozen...intent ...

Donna M. Dean. Deep Six: a Novel of Life, Death, Deception, and Betrayal.

Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military;  September 22, 2001 ;   Efaw, Amy;   787 words ......Characters, Weak Story Deep Six is a novel that unfolds during the late 1940's in...household permanently. The first third of the novel, written in a style reminiscent of a...War trickle in. Here, midpoint in the novel, the plot takes a sudden and jarring...Advocate General determine the cause of ...

Death to Lady Bountiful: Women and Reform in Edith Wharton's "The Fruit of...

Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers;  January 1, 2001 ;   MARCHAND, MARY V.;   787 words ......generations of critics is that Wharton's 1907 novel The Fruit of the Tree lacks a stable core...characteristic indirection. After praising the novel to Wharton as a thing of a great deal of...complain to Mary Cadwalader Jones of the novel's strangely infirm composition and construction...

Grief, doubt and nostalgia in detective fiction or ... 'death and the...

College Literature;  September 22, 1998 ;   Munt, Sally R.;   787 words ......recall how implicit my mother's death is to this work, how she is in every page, every novel I read. The two things are...cancer, and it was not until her death that I focused my research...another ending: my mother's death. Her funeral was six months...silhouette. This inevitable death had ...

Terrifying Near-Death Experience Inspires Thrilling New Novel; Penguin...

PR Newswire;  September 3, 2003 ;     690 words ......similarities between near-death experiences were worldwide. And while negative near-death experiences are rare, they...considering the subject of my second novel, I felt there no better nemesis...haunted me for years. By giving death a face, I was able to explore...creates a mythology about ...