get over the blurb already

[MalignD at aol.com]

<< so my question to you is: can a guy of nearly 70 still create a work of
 genius (rather than just a very very good novel)? >>

Not sure where you'd draw the line, but Roth is pretty potent in his 
seventies.  Seems to me Dostoyevsky was pumping 'em out in his dotage as well.

Ravelstein was a very very good book and Bellow was in his eighties.  It was 
small, admittedly, but it's not the case that great novels are necessarily 
massive, although that's the prevailing opnion on this site.  Gatsy, As I Lay 
Dying, Miss Lonleyhearts ...