W.P. competition

Andre Buys & Nicole Slagter A.Buys at net.HCC.nl
Thu Jun 5 05:23:15 CDT 1997


   Can't resist a competition.
   
   The following characters were featured in novels, stories or plays
   published during the last 25 years. Name the title and author of
   the work in which each appears.
   
   (1) Saleem Sinai: Salman Rushdie, _Midnight's Children_
   (2) Case: William Gibson, _Neuromancer_
   (3) T.S. Garp: John Irving, _The World According to Garp_
   (4) Sophie Z.: William Styron, _Sophie's Choice_?
   (5) Cesar Castillo: Oscar Hijuelos, _The Mambo Kings Play Songs of
   Love_
   (6) Tyrone Slothrop: Thomas Pynchon, _Gravity's Rainbow_
   (7) Coalhouse Walker: E.L. Doctorow, _Ragtime_
   (8) Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza: ?
   (9) Parlabane: ?
   (10) Edmund Moorash: ?
   (11) Fevvers: Angela Carter, _Nights at the Circus_
   (12) Harry Angstrom: John Updike, _Rabbit_ tetralogy
   (13) Milkman Dead: Toni Morrison, _Song of Solomon_
   (14) Sherman McCoy: Tom Wolfe, _Bonfire of the Vanities_
   (15) Ignatius Reilly: John Kennedy Toole, _The Confederacy of
   Dunces_
   (16) Wiley Silenowicz: ?
   (17) Piere Brossard: ?
   (18) Severian: ?
   (19) Azaro: ?
   (20) John Lempriere: Lawrence Norfolk, _L'Empriere's Dictionnary_
   (21) Celie: Alice Walker, _The Color Purple_
   (22) Gus McCrae: ?
   (23) Tita de la Garza: ?
   (24) Stevens: Kazuo Ishiguro, _The Remains of the Day_
   (25) Tremonisha Smarts.: Ishmael Reed, _Reckless Eyeballing_
   
    Who can fill in the blanks? Maybe we can send in a joint entry.
   
   Nicole




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