Novels with lengthy yet compelling dialogue
Dates: 2/11/02,6:31 PM through 2/12/02,9:20 AM (6 postings)
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FROM: "Kiera Koester" <[removed]@ci.beaverton.or.us>
REC'D: 2/11/02, 6:31 PM
I have a patron who is looking for novels with "lengthy yet compelling" sections of dialogue ( as in THE PROFESSIONAL by W. C. Heinz).
My thinking cap is misfiring today. :-)
THANKS!!!
Kiera Koester, Literary Matchmaker / Reference Librarian
Beaverton City Library 503.644.2197
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FROM: "Kiera Koester" <[removed]@ci.beaverton.or.us>
REC'D: 2/11/02, 6:42 PM
A postscript: here's a bit on THE PROFESSIONAL from an article by Jeff Baker in THE OREGONIAN:
Much of "The Professional" (Da Capo Press, $15, 334 pages) consists of long stretches of dialogue between characters, with few identifiers to help the reader know who's talking. Identifiers aren't necessary, though, because the characters are recognizable by their words, by what they say and how they say it
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From: Kiera Koester
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Subject: Novels with lengthy yet compelling dialogue
I have a patron who is looking for novels with "lengthy yet compelling" sections of dialogue ( as in THE PROFESSIONAL by W. C. Heinz).
My thinking cap is misfiring today. :-)
THANKS!!!
Kiera Koester, Literary Matchmaker / Reference Librarian
Beaverton City Library 503.644.2197
For information on the MOSAIC Reading and Discussion Group, see
http://www.ci.beaverton.or.us/departments/library/news.html
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FROM: "Smith, Jeff" <[removed]@marshall.usc.edu>
REC'D: 2/11/02, 7:45 PM
Jeff Smith
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> A postscript: here's a bit on THE PROFESSIONAL from an
> article by Jeff Baker in THE OREGONIAN:
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> Much of "The Professional" (Da Capo Press, $15, 334 pages)
> consists of long stretches of dialogue between characters,
> with few identifiers to help the reader know who's talking.
> Identifiers aren't necessary, though, because the characters
> are recognizable by their words, by what they say and how they say it
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> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 4:29 PM
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> Subject: Novels with lengthy yet compelling dialogue
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> I have a patron who is looking for novels with "lengthy yet
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> W. C. Heinz).
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> My thinking cap is misfiring today. :-)
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> THANKS!!!
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> Kiera Koester, Literary Matchmaker / Reference Librarian
> Beaverton City Library 503.644.2197
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> For information on the MOSAIC Reading and Discussion Group, see
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FROM: David Wright <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 2/11/02, 11:17 PM
Gotta mention Damon Runyon's great stuff,
with that classic circumlocutory conversational
tone.
David Wright
Seattle Public Library
--- Kiera Koester <[removed]@ci.beaverton.or.us>
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> I have a patron who is looking for novels with
> "lengthy yet compelling" sections of dialogue (
> as in THE PROFESSIONAL by W. C. Heinz).
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> My thinking cap is misfiring today. :-)
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> THANKS!!!
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> Kiera Koester, Literary Matchmaker / Reference
> Librarian
> Beaverton City Library 503.644.2197
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> For information on the MOSAIC Reading and
> Discussion Group, see
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FROM: "Karen A.K. Keller" <[removed]@brighton.lib.mi.us>
REC'D: 2/12/02, 7:44 AM
Karen Keller
Brighton (MI) District Library
FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 2/12/02, 9:20 AM
I believe all of Ivy Compton-Burnett's dozen or so novels would
qualify; at least the one I read and the others I've glanced at
are written solely in dialogue.
Do epistolary novels (those written solely in form of an exchange
of letters) qualify, or must the dialogue be spoken? If you'll
take epistolary, there's a lot of them, dating back to such very
early English novels as Samuel Richardson's PAMELA and CLARISSA
(I would not call anything about either of those "compelling,"
but others may differ, though).
Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu
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