America's come-from-behind victory, dramatized in graphic-novel guise.
A novel in the guise of a confession, it was taken by hundreds of thousands of American readers as a confession in the guise of a novel: Portnoy became an immediate bestseller.
For all its avowed literary seriousness, this "wild blue shocker" (Life), a novel in the guise of a confession, was an immediate bestseller.
In early drafts it was 'The Jewboy'; then a play (workshopped by Dustin Hoffman); then 'Whacking Off'; then a short story, 'A Jewish Patient Begins His Analysis', and finally, with the appearance of his psychoanalyst, Portnoy's Complaint This 'wild blue shocker' (Life), a novel in the guise of a confession, was an immediate bestseller.
The first arrives in the form of the trickster god Coyote, who traipses through the novel in multiple guises.
Yet because Mr. Thomson is able to sneak up a clangorous point in quiet, realistic guise, his novel does not so much bludgeon as infiltrate its uneasy theme.
According to The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, some critics consider A Measure of Independence "a powerful dramatic novel written under the guise of an autobiography".
He found novel twists, wrinkles and guises for staples like the haunted mansion, the lab experiment gone wrong, the family curse and vengeance from the tomb.
A recipient of an advanced reading copy initiated Node Magazine, a literary project in the guise of the novel's fictional magazine, with the intent of annotating the novel.
Indeed, the novel, even given this fragmentary guise, is a hugely ambitious political fable.
Taken by hundreds of thousands of American readers as a confession in the guise of a novel, it placed its author inexorably centre stage in the minds of his audience.
