Mr. Coetzee's story, not yet published, featured one of his favorite characters, Elizabeth Costello, a successful novelist in her 70's who is also the central figure in his most recent novel, whose title bears her name, and in his 1999 work "The Lives of Animals," which included writings from real scholars.
Until he does, he will keep making movies whose titles bear more promise than the pictures deliver.
Through the four novels whose titles bear his nickname — "Rabbit, Run," "Rabbit Redux," "Rabbit Is Rich" and "Rabbit at Rest" — the author traces the sad life of this undistinguished middle-American against the background of the last half-century's major events.
Concentrating on Dickens's early career, this sharp-eyed biography takes us through the 1830s and the completion of "Oliver Twist," his second novel — and the first whose title page bears his own name rather than the alias under which he wrote "Sketches by Boz" and "The Pickwick Papers".
When "Great Granny Webster New York Review Books Classicscs), a novel whose title character bears a distinct resemblance to the author's own tyrannical great-grandmother, was short-listed for the Booker Prize, Philip Larkin cast the deciding vote against it on the grounds that it was too autobiographical.
In a hybrid work of biography, memoir and literary criticism (whose title alludes to Alice Munro's coming-of-age novel, "Lives of Girls and Women"), Sheila Munro examines the writing life and bears witness to what her mother's readers have always assumed: that her fiction is autobiographical, that her brand of realism, at once affectionate and clinical, owes a debt to... reality.
For everyone else "Cradle 2 the Grave," whose horror-movie title bears no relation to what happens on the screen, suggests the prequel to a video game.
Go!," whose title Horvath seems deliberately to evoke.
Mr. O'Brien, whose title was director, had served since July 2001.
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