But your husband is cool with loaning you out for these fictional purposes?
Reinhabiting a recent historical event for fictional purposes is a finicky trick to pull off.
No other book of mine carries behind it anything resembling this caboose, but I felt obliged here to recognize where authentic lives and events are clearly bent to my fictional purposes.
To all these details Mr. Nersesian has remained faithful, while filling in the blanks to suit his fictional purposes; in the author's account, a young Paul Moses becomes a guerrilla fighter during the Mexican Civil War and later lives in East Tremont in the Bronx as his brother's Cross Bronx Expressway bulldozes its way toward his apartment.
Missing Hospital, it's called: "Missing was really Mission Hospital, a word that on the Ethiopian tongue came out with a hiss so it sounded like 'Missing.' " They grow up amid the political turmoil of Ethiopia (its actual chronology altered slightly by Verghese to suit his fictional purposes), and in 1979 Marion flees, first to Nairobi and finally to New York, where he qualifies as a surgeon.
In "Medusa", the "T", was changed to an "M" "for fictional purposes".
The multimedia Web is the new book--I call this beast the Supernovel for fictional purposes--and with that comes all kinds of confusion.
The Lotus Esprit capable of transforming from car to submarine in the movie was purchased for £616,000 at a London auction in October 2013 by Elon Musk, who plans to rebuild the vehicle and attempt to make the fictional dual-purpose car be an actual dual-purpose car (underwater and on land).
Some notion of teamhood, of commonality, of shared purpose, however fictional, is part of the magnetism of spectatorship — what makes us fans.
"The Little White Car" knowingly mirrors that world rather than dissects it, and this approach gives Danuta de Rhodes her purpose: the fictional author's perspective never strays from that of Veronique, who might be Danuta's less precocious sister.
