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by Emily
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by Tim
Sandlin
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by David
Denby
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David Denby, New York city movie critic and journalist, entered Columbia
University in 1991 to take the university's famous course in "Great Books."
This is the course that, in preserving the notion of the western canon
without apology to multiculturalists and feminists, has been an unlikely
focus of America's culture war in recent years. Where other universities
have caved in and revised or enlarged the canon, Columbia's course has
remained intact. Denby's intention as a writer and protagonist in the culture
war was to record the experience and the personal impact of the course.
He has produced a cry from the heart in favor of the classics of western
civilization, relaying with infectious enthusiasm how literature touched
his soul. --This text refers to the
hardcover edition of this title.
The New York Times Book Review, Joyce Carol Oates:
a lively adventure of the mind ... the tone of the prose, sounded like
a brass fanfare at the outset, is one of unqualified enthusiasm: energy,
vigor, intellectual curiosity and what might be called an ecstasy of imaginative
projection. --This text refers to the
hardcover edition of this title.
Salon, Stephanie Zacharek:
Denby's reasoning is solid, and the delight he takes in these books
often charming. --This text refers to the
hardcover edition of this title.
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by Dean
King, John
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Worth Estes
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by Harry
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From Kirkus Reviews, 08/15/97:
No fewer than 24 contemporary Scottish writers are represented in this
vivid, all-encompassing anthology, poets and essayists included, though
most are fiction writers. Familiar names--such as Trainspotting's Irvine
Welsh, The New Confession's William Boyd, and Morvern Callar's Alan Warner--mingle
with others who deserve to be better known in the US, among them Janice
Galloway and A.L. Kennedy, both prize-winning novelists whose stories dispel
any misperception here of the current surge in Scottish literature as a
predominantly male phenomenon. From Welsh's view in the vernacular of a
soccer enthusiast, whose plans for watching the weekend match on TV are
modified somewhat when his wife's legs are removed by a high-speed train
as they cross the tracks while hurrying home from the pub (``A Fault on
the Line'') to Kennedy's New York story of a young woman whose desert dreams
and violent fantasies have no room in the ``perfect'' relationship she's
enmeshed in (``Rockaway and the Draw''), these are often tales of savagery,
whether accidental or suppressed, blackly humorous or between-the-eyes
serious. The trademark images of punks and ravers made popular by the Scottish
Beats are here as well. But as the anthology makes abundantly clear, these
writers claiming Scottish kinship are onto something more universal, poking
into the basics of the human condition in a way that makes for uncommonly
good reading. A memorable collection, with a crisply contextual introduction
by Ritchie. -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights
reserved.
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by Penelope
Lively
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The weather is blistering but the emotions are chilly in this intimate,
elegant novel set in the British countryside during a summer of record
heat. A mother is watching the end of her daughter's marriage while confronting
her own simmering anger over the infidelity of her own departed husband,
years before. Penelope Lively's intense but muted style mirrors the detached
anguish of her characters, who are groping toward their true feelings.
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The New Yorker:
Wisdom tends to substitute for drama here, yet you don't want to part
company with these characters, who, time and again, elicit a sensation
of intense familiarity. --This text refers to the
hardcover edition of this title.
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by Irene
Dische
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by Larry
Brown
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Larry Brown is the master of the raw and the sparse and of bringing
Mississippi to the world in a language that is as stripped down and bare
as Faulkner's
is dense. Brown is at his best when he writes of the tensions between one
screwed-up man and another, in this case a father and son. One has just
been let out of prison, and he shouldn't have been. The other is drunk
and disabled and intends on staying that way. To make things worse, there
is a conflict with the sheriff, who is good and righteous but who tried
to put the moves on the parolee's woman while he was in prison. To tell
more would be to violate Brown's mastery of dialogue and of that which
goes unspoken in this sly story of father, son, and misery. --This text
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hardcover edition of this title.
Literary
Fiction Editor's Recommended Book, 02/01/97:
Larry Brown, a former Oxford, Mississippi, firefighter, has been steadily
gaining fans since his short stories were first published in The Mississippi
Review and other literary magazines. In Brown's newest novel, an ex-con
returns to the small Mississippi town where his family still lives. Glen
Davis is, as they say, a bad guy. After years of stewing in old grudges,
he starts into murdering and raping to settle the scores. Meanwhile, good-guy
town sheriff Bobby Blanchard (who, in the superb entanglements made extra-possible
by small towns, is Davis's half-brother and in love with Davis's ex-girlfriend)
is forced to deal with Davis. --This text refers to the
hardcover edition of this title.
Thrillers
Editor's Recommended Book, 11/01/96:
Brown was a firefighter in Oxford, Mississippi, for 17 years, and as
he proved in his two previous novels (Dirty
Work, Joe) he writes powerfully about small town people whose
lives are in danger. Father and Son is his best work so far -- a
heart-stopping psychological thriller about how easily love and hate can
grow in the same garden. When Glen Evans gets out of prison in 1968, having
served three years for killing a boy while driving drunk, almost the first
thing he thinks about doing is blowing his father Virgil's head off. The
threat of sudden death hangs over the rest of the book, but there's also
a strong sense of hope and a surprising amount of sympathy for the twisted
soul of Glen -- one of the more memorable characters in recent fiction.
--This text refers to the
hardcover edition of this title.
The New York Times Book Review, Anthony Quinn:
Father and Son is about the violence in men's hearts and the
accidents of birth that may have hatched it there. For the most part it
is an engrossing tale, and nicely detailed: the torpid rhythms of life
in the small-town South are wonderfully caught. --This text refers to
the hardcover
edition of this title.
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by Ian
Jack (Editor)
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by Robert
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Boston Globe, May 7, 1996:
Whip smart... Best described as punk noir, it takes the sardonic bite
of Raymond Chandler and sets it to the mosh-pit madness of Green Day. An
exciting and daringly original book. --This text refers to the
paperback edition of this title.
The Independent, June 27, 1996:
An often funny, often violent, ripping roller-coaster ride laced with
black humor, acid wit, and dead-on observations about life, fame and fortune
in the late 1990s. --This text refers to the
paperback edition of this title.
The Daily Telegraph, March 16, 1996:
Eversz's novel reads like The Catcher in the Rye with high explosives.
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New City Lit, June 13, 1996:
Eversz, a master of plot and one-liners, has turned the old Raymond
Chandler tradition on its ear with his terrifically resourceful heroine.
He is also a devastatingly funny social critic. --This text refers to
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Booklist, April 1996:
A stylish, hilariously cynical, high-action, pop-noir thriller... It's
not often you find a novel that combines good old hard-boiled smart talk
with feisty feminism, punk fashion and references to Marcel Duchamp and
Andy Warhol. What a blast. --This text refers to the
paperback edition of this title.
Richmond Times, May 19, 1996:
Shooting Elvis is first-rate... Eversz does everything right... Characters
are fully-formed and believable. Plot coheres. And the writing gleams.
--This text refers to the
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by James
Tate (Editor)
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Poetry
Editor's Recommended Book, 09/01/97:
"The daily routine of our lives can be good and even wonderful, but
there is still a hunger in us for the mystery of the deep waters, and poetry
can fulfill that hunger." So writes James Tate, editor of the 1997 edition
of Best American Poetry. The poems that follow his essay bear out the claim.
Including work by Allen Ginsberg, Denise Levertov, Mark Strand, and other
first-rate poets, the 1997 collection again delights the reader with the
variety and quality of poetry now being written. Here is a taste, from
Mark Strand's contribution, "Morning, Noon and Night": "Whatever the starcharts
told us to watch for or the maps / Said we would find, nothing prepared
us for what we discovered. / We toiled in the shadowless depths of noon,
/ While an alien wind slept in the branches, and dead leaves / Turned to
dust in the streets." This series consistently produces collections that
are essential reading for poetry lovers.
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by James
Ellroy
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by Sebastian
Faulks
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Readers who are entranced by the sweeping Anglo sagas of Masterpiece
Theatre will devour Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks's historical
drama. A bestseller in England, there's even a little high-toned erotica
thrown into the mix to convince the doubtful. The book's hero, a 20-year-old
Englishman named Stephen Wraysford, finds his true love on a trip to Amiens
in 1910. Unfortunately, she's already married, the wife of a wealthy textile
baron. Wrayford convinces her to leave a life of passionless comfort to
be at his side, but things do not turn out according to plan. Wraysford
is haunted by this doomed affair and carries it with him into the trenches
of World War I. Birdsong derives most of its power from its descriptions
of mud and blood, and Wraysford's attempt to retain a scrap of humanity
while surrounded by it. There is a simultaneous description of his present-day
granddaughter's quest to read his diaries, which is designed to give some
sense of perspective; this device is only somewhat successful. Nevertheless,
Birdsong is an unflinching war story that is bookended by romances
and a rewarding read.
The New York Times Book Review, Michael Gorra:
Birdsong seems to me superb. His prose is spare and precis....
Mr. Faulks's elaborate structure merely demonstrates how quickly innovation
can be reduced to a formula. The present-day scenes in Birdsong
are so lackluster that they seem a kind of injustice; I can scarcely believe
they're the work of the same writer who in this book's best pages draws
on Owen's great poem to provide a genuinely cathartic description of the
war's last days.
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by Bernard
MacLaverty
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by Jeanette
Winterson
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Literary
Fiction Editor's Recommended Book, 07/01/97:
In 1985 Jeanette Winterson won the Whitbread Award for best first fiction
for the semi-autobiographical Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, an
often wry exploration of lesbian possibility bumping up against evangelical
fanaticism. She was 25. Two years later, The Passion, her third
novel, appeared, the fantastical tale of Henri--Napoleon's cook--and Villanelle,
a Venetian gondolier's daughter who has webbed feet (previously an all-male
attribute), works as a croupier, picks pockets, cross-dresses, and literally
loses her heart to a beautiful woman. Written in a lyrical and jolting
combination of fairy tale diction and rhythm and the staccato, the book
would be a risky proposition in lesser hands. Winterson has said that she
wanted to look at people's need to worship and examine what happens to
young men in militaristic societies. The question was, how to do so without
being polemical and didactic? Only she could have come up with such an
exquisite answer. In the end, Henri, incarcerated on an island of madmen,
becomes aware that his passion, "even though she could never return it,
showed me the difference between inventing a lover and falling in love.
The one is about you, the other about someone else." --This text refers
to the paperback
(reprint) edition of this title.
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by Louis
De Bernieres, Louis
De Bernieres
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by Andrew
Cowan
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by Rick
Bass
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by Eileen
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The New York Times Book Review, Molly Giles:
Written in spare, quiet prose, You're So Beautiful is a fine
first collection. Some of the stories are slight, some are sort of silly
... but two or three are memorable. All are written with humor and affection,
and all honor the ordinary.
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by William
Butler Yeats, Richard
J. Finneran
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by Charles
Dickens, Jeremy
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by Mary
Wortley Montagu, Isobel
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by Edmund
Wilson, Lewis
M. Dabney (Editor), edmu
Wilson
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by Joseph
Blotner (Editor), William
Faulkner
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by William
Blake
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by Harriet
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by Herbert
Aptheker (Editor), W.
E. B. Du Bois
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by Margaret
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Said to hold the future of the English novel in his hands, Angus
Wilson was at once fresh and revolutionary, recording the attitudes
of 20th century England in savagely funny short stories and animated fiction.
In Angus Wilson: A Biography, long-time friend and fellow-novelist
Margaret Drabble reveals the colorful background that provided Wilson his
unique perspective. The youngest of five siblings by 13 years, he spent
his childhood eavesdropping on adult conversations and playing homosexual
games with two of his older brothers. After attending Oxford, serving in
the war, and working at the British Museum, Wilson suffered a breakdown.
A psychotherapist encouraged him to write as a form of therapy and unknowingly
launched his career. --This text refers to the
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The New York Times Book Review, Peter
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... a frank, affectionate, and judicious biography ... --This text
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by Thekla
Clark
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Though Thekla Clark turned down a marriage proposal from W.H. Auden
in the early 1950s, she remained close to the poet and his companion Chester
Kallman until Auden's death in 1973. In memoir, Clark follows the lives
of this unconventional couple, recalling their home on the Italian island
of Ischia, their romps through Europe, and the more troubling times Auden
spent in New York. While Kallman embraced his homosexuality and was campily
outrageous, Auden was uncomfortable in his and became conservative and
conventional. Despite their differences, or maybe because of them, their
relationship endured--they met in 1939 and Kallman died less than two years
after Auden, seemingly of a broken heart. --This text refers to an out
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New York Times, Miranda
Seymour:
Ms. Clark is deft, convincing and immensely touching. A quiet deadpan
humor saves her book from toppling into sentimentality.
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by Christopher
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Patrick O'Donnell, author of Echo Chambers: Figuring Voice in
Modern Narrative and editor of MFS: Modern Fiction Studies:
"This is impressive work on one of the four or five major contemporary
novelists and on the cultural conditions under which he writes, and it
will attract many readers interested in contemporary American literature
and culture."-Patrick O'Donnell, author of Echo Chambers: Figuring Voice
in Modern Narrative and editor of MFS: Modern Fiction Studies
Steven Moore, author of William Gaddis:
"A standard study and an indispensable introduction, of great use both
to experts in the field as well as those studying Gaddis for the first
time."-Steven Moore, author of William Gaddis
Patrick O'Donnell, author of Echo Chambers: Figuring Voice in
Modern Narrative and editor of MFS: Modern Fiction Studies:
"This is impressive work on one of the four or five major contemporary
novelists and on the cultural conditions under which he writes, and it
will attract many readers interested in contemporary American literature
and culture."-Patrick O'Donnell, author of Echo Chambers: Figuring Voice
in Modern Narrative and editor of MFS: Modern Fiction Studies --This
text refers to the
hardcover edition of this title.
Book Description:
The author of four truly important novels-The Recognitions in 1955,
J R in 1975, Carpenter's Gothic in 1985, and A Frolic of His Own in 1995-William
Gaddis is considered by many literary scholars to be one of the most outstanding
novelists of the twentieth century, to be spoken of in the same breath
as James Joyce, Robert Musil, and Thomas Pynchon. Hints and Guesses: William
Gaddis's Fiction of Longing is the first scholarly work to discuss all
four Gaddis novels. While not dismissing the inclination of many scholars
to view Gaddis's fiction as postmodern, Christopher Knight moves critical
response in another direction, toward a discussion of Gaddis's significance
as a satirist and social critic. Knight investigates Gaddis's predominant
thematic interests, including those of contemporary aesthetics, Flemish
painting, forgery, corporate America, Third World politics, and the U.S.
legal system. What Knight finds is an author not only acutely sensitive
to post-war social realities but also one whose critique carries with it
an implied utopian dimension.
by Elizabeth
Barnes
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by Jennifer
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Kearns
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by James
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by Joel
Myerson (Editor), Daniel
Shealy, Madeleine
b Stern
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by Jane
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by Richard
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