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John Self, the extravagantly wretched man at the heart of this wonderfully funny book, is no ordinary pig. He's a monster of lustrous indulgence. Naturally, he's entering the movie business. But somehow his low cunning and bewitching awfulness make him and this novel perfectly irresistible. --By Richard Lacayo...
Most people think of Updike and Cheever as the masters of postwar American suburbia. Add Yates to the master list. His greatest novel is a bitterly funny account of lethal disappointment in the Connecticut suburbs in 1955. That may sound like a common enough predicament, but Yates gives it devastating force...
Dense, funny, endlessly inventive (and, O.K., long-winded), this satire of the 18th century novel is also an earnest picture of the pitfalls awaiting innocence. It's the late 17th century, and Ebenezer Cooke is a poet, a dutiful son and a determined virgin who travels from England to Maryland to take possession of his father's tobacco plantation. Not since Candide has a steadfast soul witnessed so many strange scenes or faced so many comic perils...
Brilliant and beer-soaked, this book is ostensibly about a lazy, poor student who's writing a novel. But he loses control of his characters, and they get mixed up with local Dublin types and figures out of Gaelic myth who collide and commingle in glorious, category-defying cacophony...
This was hardly a novel argument, and yet it was rather unsettling that a bright and ambitious young woman should say it and, by all appearances, genuinely believe it. After all, haven’t we—all of us at Harvard, and Yale, and other such places—spent the past 20 years of our lives mastering the art of having our cake and eating it too? Isn’t that how we got here in the first place—by finding that elusive balance between schoolwork and sleep, between dozens of extracurricular initiatives...