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Straight Talking: A Novel

Anastasia, or "Tasha," is a thirty-year-old English woman working as a television producer in London.


A Condor's Fire: a novel

At the time of publication, the New York Times Book Review decried the novel as a “bizarrely contrived piece of literature, whose attempt, though valiant, at channeling the epiphanic style of Joyce, and the magical-realism of Garcia Marquez, is ultimately unconvincing”.

A, A Novel

Paul is Paul Morrissey, who had just joined the group and would eventually become the director of Warhol's later films.

Rotten Rita is Kenneth Rapp, who, with Ondine and Billy Name, made up the "A-heads Trio."

Bailey White

White has penned three books, Mama Makes Up Her Mind, Sleeping at the Starlite Motel, and Quite a Year for Plums.

Capitoline Grounds

In Darryl Brock's 1990 novel, If I Never Get Back: A Novel, the main character is transported back in time to 1869, where he joins the Cincinnati Red Stockings on their quest to remain undefeated.

Delhi: A Novel

Some parts of the novel were also published in the Evergreen Review and The Illustrated Weekly of India.

Mir Taqi Mir

Khushwant Singh's famous novel Delhi: A Novel gives very interesting details about the fictional life and adventures of the great poet.

Mutnedjmet

In Michelle Moran's novel, Nefertiti: A Novel, Mutnedjmet is the principal character as the younger sister of Queen Nefertiti.

Polly: A Novel

Polly: A Novel is a first novel by Amy Bryant, published in 2006 by Harper Perennial (ISBN 9780060898045).

Richard: A Novel

Richard: A Novel is a book by English author and journalist Ben Myers about Richey Edwards, the former rhythm guitarist and co-lyricist of the Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers.

Robert Ressler

Ressler's visit to Ciudad Juárez (in Mexico) to investigate the still-active femicides occurring there served as inspiration for the character Albert Kessler in Roberto Bolaño's novel 2666.

Sarah Goodridge

Beauty Revealed was the inspiration for a miniature painted by the fictional heroine of Blindspot: A Novel (New York, 2008), by Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore.

The Passionate Friends

The film is based on The Passionate Friends: A Novel, a 1913 story by H. G. Wells It describes a love triangle in which a woman cannot give up her affair with another man.


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