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Alistair MacLean Information
2,518 words, approx. 8 pages
 Alistair Stuart MacLean (April 28, 1922 - February 2, 1987; Scottish Gaelic: Alasdair MacGill-Eain) was a Scottish novelist who wrote successful thrillers or adventure stories, the best known of which are perhaps The Guns of Navarone and Where Eagles...



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 The Washington Post
Best-Selling Author Alistair MacLean Dies
02/03/1987: 1,351 words, approx. 5 pages Alistair MacLean, 64, the author of such popular thrillers as "The Guns of Navarone" and "Ice Station Zebra" and one of Britain's most popular postwar writers, died Feb. 2 at a hospital in Munich after a stroke and heart attack. He was visiting friends...
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 The Boston Globe
Alistair Maclean, British Author Of 'guns Of Navarone,' Others; 64
02/03/1987: 341 words, approx. 1 pages FRANKFURT, West Germany - Alistair MacLean, the author of "The Guns of Navarone" and one of Britain's leading postwar writers, died Monday in Munich. He was 64. In London, Mr. MacLean's publisher William Collins Sons and Co. said the author suffered a stroke...




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Critical Essay by Roger Baker
322 words, approx. 1 pages
 I found [Caravan to Vaccares] childish schoolboy stuff. I can only think [Mr. MacLean] was having a slack moment, for Bear Island has all the tight construction, high adventure and excitement we really expect from [him]. But funnily enough, despite the setting—a charter ship with film crew on the Arctic seas and what must be the most inhospitable island of all time, and despite the tremendous violence of the action, Mr. MacLean and Miss [Agatha] Christie are siblings under the skin. Quite simply it i...
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Critical Essay by Julian Barnes
236 words, approx. 1 pages
 One of the manifestations of encephalitis lethargica, or sleepy sickness, is a condition known as akinesia. The sufferer presents a deceptive surface of passivity or inertia; but his difficulty in moving is in fact the product of an unceasing inner struggle…. It is a condition which can be simulated to a remarkable degree by reading Alistair MacLean. A coarsely thrustful plot impels you forward; a coarsely imprecise style retards you; and the result, even though you formally progress through the page...
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Critical Essay by Nick Totton
222 words, approx. 1 pages
 Alistair MacLean has … [little] emotional involvement in his tales. Many years and many books ago, he found a selling vein; and he has been opening it, bloodily, ever since. But Mr MacLean's violence has no real suggestion of pain; it is the 'Bang bang you're dead' violence of children's games. The impression is heightened by the constant reversals and counter-reversals of fortune, captures, escapes and recaptures, that keep the plot steaming along: either Mr MacLea...


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