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...potent and original stylistic device: six of the nine stories in the book are cast in that least-employed from of narrative, yhe second person, The irony, of course, is that this form of address comes not by way of advice and is not at all directed towards the reader Far from being a merely clever manipulation of narrative voice, it is a form of distancing for the narrators, an inner monologue which help to hold the pain and anxiety at arm's length, Moore's characters are often acutely self-aware ans the same time utterly unable to help...
...fail at an early age--say, fourteen. Early, critical disillusionment is necessary so that at fifteen you can write long haiku sequences about thwarted desire." But in the middle of all the wisecracking remain passages that ring out with such truth that they communicate directly to the reader the pleasure of literary creation, "those brief, fragile, untested moments of exhilaration when you know: you are a genius." On the basis of her first collection, Lorrie Moore clearly qualifies...
...Each would be clearly marked on the outside: Traditional Happy Ending; Traditional Unhappy Ending . . . Cliffhanger Ending; Dream Ending; Opaque Ending; Surrealist Ending; and so on. You would be allowed only one, and would have to destroy the envelopes you didn't select. That's what I call offering the reader a choice...
Like Wouk, Goodkind is reader friendly, operating under the frequently patronizing assumption that his audience has had a hard day. For example: "The problem with elites, which in our topsy-turvy times has got people all churned up is this: who defines the elite? And then, who decides that you or I do or don't meet those superior requirements? Such queries can drift us into minefields like racism and genocide, which this easygoing amusement will bypass, thank...
...respectable poverty to even more respectable affluence. Goodkind relives his bar mitzvah and metamorphosis from yeshiva boy to "Vicomte de Brag," his pen name on the Columbia student paper. The tone and texture of these recollections are wearily familiar, a point that even the author seems to concede: "The reader has been at big wedding receptions, and if you picture as fancy a one as you ever...