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- <text id=93HT0588>
- <title>
- 1983: Books
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1983 Highlights
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- January 2, l984
- BOOKS
- BEST OF '83
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>Fiction
- </p>
- <p>The Anatomy Lesson, by Philip Roth. The conclusion of the
- Nathan Zuckerman trilogy finds Roth's comic writer-hero
- disillusioned with fiction and headed for medical school and
- more trouble.
- </p>
- <p>Chronicle of a Death Foretold, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The
- 1982 Nobel laureate mixes imagination and fact into a
- suspenseful novella of honor and revenge in a Colombian town.
- </p>
- <p>Ironweed, by William Kennedy. In the third novel set in his
- native Albany, the author traces a bum's progress through the
- late Depression and his old upstate New York haunts.
- </p>
- <p>Pitch Dark, by Renata Adler. A sophisticated narrator, nearly
- indistinguishable from the author, uses anecdote and bits of
- intriguing conversation to reflect on her mobile and solitary
- life.
- </p>
- <p>Shiloh and Other Stories, by Bobbie Ann Mason. Times are
- changing in western Kentucky, the setting for these tales of
- restless wives, footloose truckers and feisty senior citizens.
- </p>
- <p>Nonfiction
- </p>
- <p>Blue Highways, by William Least Heat Moon. After an unhappy
- marriage, a wanderer takes to the U.S. back roads to examine his
- country and his American Indian roots.
- </p>
- <p>The Last Lion, by William Manchester. One award-winning
- biographer's highly charged, worshipful narrative of Winston
- Spencer Churchill's spectacular rise as soldier, author and
- politician.
- </p>
- <p>Modern Times, by Paul Johnson. The crusty former editor of the
- New Statesman blames Einstein, Marx and no-fault liberalism for
- the evils of the "me" century.
- </p>
- <p>Stieglitz, by Sue Davidson Lowe. The photographer's grand-niece
- casts an affectionate, scholarly look back at "Uncle Al," the
- cantankerous genius who transformed American photography from
- reproduction to art.
- </p>
- <p>White Mischief, by James Fox. As the sun sets luridly on the
- British Empire, circa 1940, Kenya colonials go to pieces in a
- scandalous, riveting tale of murder and retribution.</p>
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