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Case's novel is a beautifully written, expertly crafted portrayal of a simple American family. Yet very little is conventional in this work. There is no single strand of time to guide the reader through the varied experiences and feelings Chase presents, moving back and forth freely through three generations of American women. The unity of the novel is created soley through the narrators, the voice of a collective female consciousness...
...appeared in The New Yorker and Esquire--one detects the same imbalance over and over, a sort of ripple in the meticulous mirror-glass which the author holds up to picayune suburbia. Not that the impression dominates. Caught up in the smooth flow of Barthelme's prose, this reader has often dismissed it as a paranoid mirage. But now 17 of Barthelme's stories have been gathered into a book, and there can be no further question Frederick Barthelme has one big problem...
Strangely, all Kapuściński's Ethiopian interlocutors speak in the same ironic voice; the reader will soon come to identify it as the author's own. Indeed, there are moments when Kapuściński's fugitive images of Haile Selassie seem to merge with his visions of Stalin and other Communist leaders who have inflamed the writer's political fantasies. Little wonder that when The Emperor was published in Poland in 1978, this story of an evil autocrat surrounded by craven functionaries was read as an allegory of Communist rule...
...house. They were two sets of sisters whose personalities were distinct enough but who formed until midadolescence a tribe more formidable than any single member. The novel's effective but highly unusual narrative voice reflects this collective consciousness. Scenes are related by "we," never by "I." When the reader notices this he may try to isolate a single speaker by elimination: Katie has crawled under the stall door, Anne is wedged there, and Jenny is looking for a dime, so it must be Celia. But no, we have established that it is not Celia. The speaker stays hidden...
...lived above the high school athletic field," he recalled, "and every day home from school and down I went. I spent every minute in the track and football season watching the athletes and dreaming of some day being one of them. I was a voracious reader. I went to the public library about once a week and took out a couple of books. I went through all the books about Frank Merriwell at Yale and the Rover Boys-the college experience and the emphasis on dying for dear old Rutgers...