Books Included for This Word Counting

A stream of magazine stories helped the young Frances provide for her impoverished mother; later, she turned herself into a one-woman writing business, milking her most successful works (such as A Little Princess) by selling them four times over, as stories, serialisations, novels and plays.

Hezbollah and Hamas proclaim the desirability of killing any Jew, and there is nothing novel in the proclamation.

Whatever the fulsome adjectives we apply to this sensibility, we see it in spades in Justin Haythe's debut novel, "The Honeymoon."

The novel's first-person protagonist, Gordon Garraty, is the only son of a well-to-do American couple.

Pearl — yes, he is named for the basketball great Earl "The Pearl" Monroe — also happens to be an aspiring novelist in search of material and enamored of the famous novelist Albert T. Fitzgerald (Kevin Spacey, the film’s producer) who happens to be Leland’s estranged father.

Nevertheless, and as much as I support the novel's message with raised fists, Steinbeck's realism feels false to me.

In Mark Twain's novel, a 19th-century American is transported back to the Middle Ages.

The novel's grim and dismal ending is a model for the downside risk of the forward strategy.

crime novel, is being movie-ized by director Brian De Palma, with Mark Wahlbergand Josh Hartnett ready to roll.

Her affecting if somewhat warmed-over new novel "The Amateur Marriage" gives us a similar portrait of a 30-year-long marriage between a warm, ditzy blabbermouth and her cautious, stick-in-the-mud husband -- minus the road trip.

Michael and Pauline Anton in "The Amateur Marriage" have so much in common with the couple in "Breathing Lessons" that the reader of both novels may well come down with a case of deja vu: The husbands are both proprietors of small businesses that they took over from their families; the wives are both bad drivers and impetuous zanies; both couples are given to pondering the roads not taken in their pasts; both must contend with a wayward child and the unexpected arrival of a grandchild.

Indeed, the latter novel is an altogether darker, less comic production than its predecessor.

The melancholy melody that threads through many Tyler novels is more pronounced in these pages; a sense of loss and mortality more insistent.

The cloying cuteness that has curdled some of her recent fiction is largely absent here, and so is the tetchiness of her last novel ("Back When We Were Grown-Ups") that pushed its characters perilously close to caricature.

Hermetically sealed Though "The Amateur Marriage" spans some six decades, from Pearl Harbor through the present day, Tyler is less interested than John Updike was in his Rabbit novels with the effect that public events and changing social mores have on the day-to-day lives of her characters; her people, after all, live in a hermetic Baltimore world of family and neighbors and seem largely impervious to the gyrations of the world beyond.

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