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- <text id=91TT2233>
- <title>
- Oct. 07, 1991: If Scarlett Sequel Fever Caught On
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Oct. 07, 1991 Defusing the Nuclear Threat
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BOOKS, Page 73
- What If Scarlett Sequel Fever Caught On?
- </hdr><body>
- <p> THE SUN ALSO SETS
- </p>
- <p> Jake Barnes, the emasculated expatriate hero of Ernest
- Hemingway's classic, is the beneficiary of a breakthrough
- operation in the romantic world of Paris in the '20s. With the
- help of supplemental hormones, Jacqueline Barnes goes on to
- become a suffragist and campaigner against alcoholism.
- </p>
- <p> THE NEXT TO THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS
- </p>
- <p> In this politically correct prequel, Hawkeye displays the
- Eurocentric tendencies to hunt and waste. Local Native Americans
- lecture him on ageism, gender bias, affirmative action and
- ecological consciousness until he has a nervous collapse,
- jettisons his rifle and opens a frontier health-food store.
- </p>
- <p> MOBY-DICK II
- </p>
- <p> The whale is hunted down by the great-great-grandson of
- Captain Ahab, Lieut. General Ahab. Backed by the United Nations,
- Ahab blasts Moby Dick out of the water. From a land base, the
- intransigent mammal denies U.N. inspectors the right to see his
- spout, suggesting that Moby-Dick III may be on the way.
- </p>
- <p> THE AQUAMARINE LETTER
- </p>
- <p> Nathaniel Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter in a fashionable
- shade for the '90s. The lovely and willful heroine, Hester
- Prynne, who was once doomed to wear A for adultery, finds
- happiness and fulfillment with one of Boston's first sex
- therapists. Her performance proves to be so outstanding that she
- is awarded an A+.
- </p>
- <p> THE ROTH
- </p>
- <p> A Kafkaesque novel that owes much to the author of
- Portnoy's Complaint. A shapely female breast finds itself
- metamorphosed into a best-selling novelist named Philip Roth.
- The bewildered Roth is condemned to a modern version of hell:
- an endless series of appearances on Geraldo, Oprah and Donahue.
- </p>
- <p> J. PIERPONT FINN
- </p>
- <p> In the post-Civil War boom, Mark Twain's child-man reveals
- his real name. Arrested in a stock swindle, the rising robber
- baron escapes from jail with the aid of Jim, nonstop talker and
- former slave, who has shrewdly invested in Thomas Edison's
- recording machine and become the founding grandfather of rap.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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