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	Sponsored Archives : Virginia Woolf & The Hours
		In this new work she is largely preoccupied with the "time" element in character and human relationships, and with a statement of the exact complexion of that intangible moment, a combination of past and future, of objective reality and subjective consciousness, which we refer to as the present.
		An hour [she explained], once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or one hundred times its clock length: on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second.
		There is a revolution in Turkey; she escapes and for some time wanders about Central Europe with a band of gypsies; eventually her British love of nature asserts itself and she hastens back to the hills and hedges she is so fond of.
	www.nytimes.com /ads/thehours/woolf-orlando.html (1004 words)

	The Novel of the Holocaust
		Walking through the airport, the Novel of the Holocaust talks to himself, remembering storefronts and round, growling buses, letters in precise handwriting--the age that passed while he was waking up, shrugging off the losses of his boyhood.
		The Novel of the Holocaust has no brothers or sisters, no wife or husband, no children, only lovers, and those are inconstant, staying a week on their way to Greece or the Middle East.
		The Novel of the Holocaust's mother did the same thing when the Novel of the Holocaust had disappointed her or done something wrong (which was all the time).
	www.stewart-onan.com /html/the_novel_of_the_holocaust.html (3198 words)

	Bookreporter.com - CLOSING TIME by Jim Fusilli
		The first involves the murder of a cab driver; Orr happens upon the driver's body and is compelled to discover who did the deed and why, when the police, overworked and underpaid, are unable to give the matter priority.
		CLOSING TIME leaves plenty of room for character development in future novels involving Orr, Bella, and the cast of secondary characters introduced therein.
		While this novel could have benefited from a bit more development from the get go, the haunting descriptions of New York City's underbelly make that deficiency a sacrifice worth experiencing.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0399147934.asp (544 words)

	Closing time - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		"Closing Time," a 1973 song by singer-songwriter Tom Waits from his debut album of the same name, Closing Time.
		"Closing Time," a 1992 song by Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen from the album The Future.
		Closing Time, a 1994 novel and sequel to Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Closing_Time (188 words)

	ABC Radio National - Books and Writing Transcript - Ramona Koval Interviews Morris West
		I did find with my novel 'Closing Time' which is a more serious approach to very much the same subjects that all my novels are, that in European countries they recognise the conditions discussed as being identical to their own, particularly in Britain and in Germany.
		At the same time very much smaller than we ever imagined it to be in terms of viruses and the quarks and the fragments of an atom.
		I didn't spend a lot of time in it, I think it was a period of two and a half years of interrupted therapy, and I suppose I did benefit but not to the extent that he thought I would when I went into it.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/arts/bwriting/heller.htm (6288 words)

	Amazon.de: Closing Time: The Sequel to Catch-22: A Novel: English Books: Joseph L. Heller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		That said, Closing Time remains a brilliant book--broadly, about the end of culture, the end of the U.S. as a wonderful place for ordinary working stiffs, and death itself.
		While Catch 22 was of little practical usage for life of all of us, Closing time digs deeply to the fuzzy beginnings of the causes using the author's 22 like paradox tool which could be sorted as dialectic, unmodern and difficult to accept by too serious readers.
		Catch 22 uses the scope of small army unit, Closing time is enlarged to that of U.S. society.
	www.amazon.de /Closing-Time-Sequel-Catch-22-Novel/dp/0684804506 (1465 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Closing Time: Books: Joseph Heller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		CLOSING TIME is a stunning achievement; a chilling, darkly funny depiction of the moral collapse of the Western world.
		Closing Time stands on its own as a well constructed novel but it fails to match the originality of the classic Catch 22, although it's likely Heller always knew it would.
		Closing Time is easily the greatest novel I have ever read, and that puts it on a good track to being the best novel ever.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Closing-Time-Joseph-Heller/dp/0743239806 (1422 words)

	Joseph Heller: Closing Time (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		He has never managed to combine the elements of farce and tragedy so well as was made possible by his theme of helplessness in the face of official stupidity.
		Few novels have all the main characters in their sixties and seventies; adolescence is probably the most common age for a protagonist.
		There is less energy in Closing Time; it does not grab you in the same way that Catch 22 does.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Academy/6422/rev0367.html (405 words)

	Ann Radcliffe
		In fact, for a writer classified as a "terror novelist," there is relatively little terror in her novels in proportion to her descriptions of nature and her focus on the sensibilities of her virtuous characters.
		However, from the time of their original publication, other readers have complained about the number and extent of her nature descriptions; contemporary critics have suggested that the scenic descriptions are one of Radcliffe's main interests, if not the main interest.
		The most obvious expression of the numinous in her novels is the characters' perception of a higher force or presence in nature.
	academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu /english/melani/novel_18c/radcliffe (2135 words)

	Summerland - The Novel (Scroll of Novelization) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The road to finishing this novel of mine has been and will continue to be a long, winding affair.
		The novel takes place in the farm region of Clearfield, PA. And in closing, Chapter 11 will be finished by week's end.
		As time went by, my writing would hover in the short story department, until the summer of 1993 proved to be a turning point for me. My soul was burning to create an epic tale.
	www.weilandworks.com /summerland/sum_novel.html (1108 words)

	The Space Books Feature: Closing Time with Joseph Heller
		I could not write a Phil Borth novel, he could not write a novel of mine, neither one of us could write a Saul Bellow novel or a Patrick White novel, and we do have a view of what storytelling would be the wrong word.
		Joseph Heller: In 'Closing Time' I did try to fuse a number of worlds, the literary world, so there are characters from literature with a number of authors, Kurt Vonegan(?) appears in the book as Kurt Vonegan(?).
		At the same time very much smaller than we ever imagined it to be in terms of viruses and the quorks(?) and the fragments of an atom.
	www.abc.net.au /arts/books/stories/s424256.htm (6036 words)

	Closing Time (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Closing Time, first published in 1994, is Joseph Heller's sequel to the popular Catch-22.
		At the end of Closing Time, both Yossarian and the chaplain apparently decide to commit passive suicide.
		In Closing Time, Yossarian is 68, and the time of Catch-22 is referred to as 45 years ago.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Closing_Time_(novel) (593 words)

	Authors on the Web -- Author's Summer Reading List - Jim Fusilli
		The debut novel, Closing Time, was published in 2001 and its sequel, A Well-Known Secret, in 2002, both by Putnam.
		Berger is one of my favorite writers, and I need to revisit this first novel in his Reinhardt series for pleasure and to admire the skill of his work.
		Elise and I were on a panel together not long ago, and I'm intrigued to read her novel about science, survival and moral ambiguity during the "winter of hunger" in Leningrad in 1942.
	www.authorsontheweb.com /features/summer03/fusilli_jim.asp (494 words)

	Reading Group Guide \| Closing Arguments by Frederick Busch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		When he writes his closing argument, the summation of his "case," his brief on behalf of his client, in other words, he is telling the truth.
		But what struck me as not simple was the way in which the novel seemed to indirectly be commenting on the way stories are told, on how the reader reacts to the writer, whom he or she cannot quite trust but on whose every word the reader must rely.
		In a time of cruelty of the large against the small--or a time when we are more aware of it, anyway-- the novel is concerned with defending what innocence can be preserved.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/closing_arguments-author.asp (1984 words)

	Novel Targets in Drug Discovery
		D&MD’s Novel Targets in Drug Discovery report provides an overview of the concept of drug targets, and discusses their place in modern drug discovery.
		Using specific examples, it discusses the development of receptor theory, describes the role of second messengers in mediating the effects of drugs, and shows how the concept of drug receptors was gradually overtaken by an appreciation of targets in the wider sense.
		Chapter 5 provides an analysis of the markets being addressed by novel targets and a sense of the revenue contribution these potential new drugs are likely to make over the next five years.
	www.piribo.com /publications/drug_discovery/novel_targets_drug_discovery.html (872 words)

	SparkNotes: Catch-22: Context
		The novel draws heavily on his Air Force experience and presents a war story that is at once hilarious, grotesque, cynical, and stirring.
		Unlike other antiromantic war novels, such as Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front, Catch-22 relies heavily on humor to convey the insanity of war, presenting the horrible meaninglessness of armed conflict through a kind of desperate absurdity rather than through graphic depictions of suffering and violence.
		It is also a novel about the moral choices that every person must make when faced with a system of authority whose rules are both immoral and illogical.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/catch22/context.html (607 words)

	hardy
		An invitation to contribute a serial to the prestigious Cornhill Magazine resulted in the novel Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), which introduced Wessex for the first time and made Hardy famous by its agricultural settings and its distinctive blend of humorous, melodramatic, pastoral, and tragic elements.
		Through intense, vivid descriptions of the heath, the fields, the seasons, and the weather, Wessex attains a physical presence in the novels and acts as a mirror of the psychological conditions and the fortunes of the characters.
		The novel can be found on-line at Masterbooks, the Electronic Literature Foundation, and Project Guttenburg.
	www.utm.edu /staff/lalexand/brnovel/hardy.html (1316 words)

	Three Great American Novel Characters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The closing line of the American National Anthem, “The Star Spangled Banner,” is: “the land of the free, and the home of the brave.” There are three American novels whose characters represent, to me, the epitome of the message of this song.
		When the time comes that George knows he must kill Lennie himself, to keep others from doing it, it is his love for Lennie, and his bravery, that makes it possible for him to make the ultimate sacrifice.
		All three novels are worthy of the title of “the great American novel” based on the characters that Hawthorne, Steinbeck, and Walker created and which still hold a fascination for American readers today.
	www.gaylasgarden.com /novelcharacters.htm (959 words)

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	developer.novell.com /research (341 words)

	Writing the Second Novel
		Once an author's first novel has appeared there is a tendency for publishers and readers to want to pigeonhole the writer as belonging to a particular genre or style.
		If you've published a first novel, you've honed your technical skills through experience and the editorial process, and there is no reason why your second novel should not be more expert, more accomplished, more mature, therefore better than the first.
		She is formulating ideas for her third novel but, beyond that, she is reticent.
	www.wordsmitten.com /noveltwointerview.htm (1641 words)

	A Brief Introduction to Joseph Heller
		The extraordinary and sustained impact of that novel, both with critics and readers, was only the beginning of a literary career that now encompasses eight major books as well as stage plays, screenplays, short stories, articles, and reviews.
		His novel, Closing Time (1994), comes full circle by reuniting the wartime heroes of his first book — Yossarian, Milo Minderbinder, and the others — in New York fifty years later.
		Closing Time received wide critical acclaim: according to one reviewer, it showed "a national treasure at work," and it brought renewed recognition of Mr.
	www.sc.edu /library/spcoll/amlit/heller/heller2.html (491 words)

	Novelist Russell Banks "Cloudsplitter" "The Sweet Hereafter"
		By the time I was in my early twenties I had abandoned painting and drawing and had become a beginning poet and fiction writer.
		While I was researching the novel, I followed a footnote from a biography by Richard Boyers to the Rare Book Room at Columbia University where there were seven boxes of dusty research materials gathered early in the century for a biography of Brown by a man named Oswald Villard.
		Born in 1824, he was an adult and close to his father at all the crucial moments in his life.
	www.time.com /time/community/transcripts/chattr030498.html (3221 words)

	Worldandnation: Pubs' call of 'Time!' may be thing of past
		closing time was the centerpiece of plans to liberalize and streamline licensing laws that were inspired by fears of munitions workers getting drunk during World War I. "Fixed closing times encourage binge drinking around last orders," Home Secretary Jack Straw told the House of Commons.
		Children will also be allowed into pubs for the first time -- but only to watch.
		In practice, police and pub keepers expect the 24-hour licenses to be confined to the centers of London and other big cities, with the main aim being to stagger closing times between 11 p.m.
	www.sptimes.com /News/041100/Worldandnation/Pubs__call_of__Time__.shtml (298 words)

	Uncle Orson Reviews Everything: Closing Time, Fiji Water And Great Books
		You might think this early closing syndrome was a Kentucky thing, but no. A few years ago, I needed to pick up a book and rushed over to a favorite local bookstore before the 9 o’clock closing time.
		If they wanted all their employees to be out of the place at, say, 11 p.m., the management should have posted 9:30 as the closing time, not 11.
		Coraline’s parents have moved to a big old house that has been cut into four apartments, and as Coraline explores, she finds that a bricked-up passage into the one vacant flat isn’t so bricked up when her parents are away.
	www.rhinotimes.com /greensboro/archives/091902/osc1.html (1439 words)

	Review on Closing Time by debanish - MouthShut.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A sprawling domestic satire that tracks down Catch protagonist John Yossarian fifty years later, Closing Time pales not only in comparison to the rest of the Heller oeuvre, but to many of his imitators’ works as well.
		The Yossarian we meet in Closing Time has decided, after a lifetime of lifeless copy writing and advertising jobs, to throw ethics to the wind and help old World War II cohort Milo Minderbinder sell his M & M E & A Sub-Supersonic Invisible and Noiseless Defensive Second-Strike Offensive Attack Bomber to the government.
		But most of the rest of Closing Time is neither fun nor particularly insightful, and the book’s apocalyptic ending â” curiously swiped from the Stanley Kubrick/Terry Southern film Dr. Strangelove â” is an exercise in depression without purpose.
	www.mouthshut.com /review/Closing_Time-116453-1.html (776 words)

	Time and Time Again
		When we feel disoriented, “out of time” and out of sync with the events in our lives it is time to consider our origins and foundations, even the way we calculate our time.
		There are two ways to approach time: one from the individual point of view, the other from a mythology or spirituality.
		Around this time, we come to realize that they are finished and provide a compost for the new.
	www.watershedonline.ca /roots/time/TimeandTime.html (1526 words)

	Martin Amis ‘Time’s Arrow’ Reviewed by Rick Kleffel
		This year, that novel has got to be "Time's Arrow" by British writer Martin Amis.
		The novel that emerges from this premise an an incredible feat of storytelling, beautifully easy to read, swimming with visual images and so startling that it can stare unflinchingly at what is certainly the ultimate horror of the twentieth century and still somehow be entertaining.
		Fortunately, I overcame my innate fear of quality, and, in an orgy of spare-cash spending, I bought the novel, then promptly filed it away while pursuing more "rewarding" reading, that is, stories about dead people coming to life and the like.
	trashotron.com /agony/reviews/amis-times_arrow.htm (597 words)

	Reading Group Guide \| Closing Arguments by Frederick Busch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The novel contains many scenes of characters being compelled to write "the truth" and then having their writing and the motives behind it questioned.
		When Marcus and Estella meet for the first time, he notices that she brightens, literally, after he rudely derides the disapproving prison guard: "I turned back to my client.
		In her closing argument for the prosecution, the assistant district attorney states, "Laws are not to be broken.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/closing_arguments.asp (687 words)

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