Tracking the ever-elusive Great American Novel

[jbor at bigpond.com]

On 23/05/2006:

> << was reviewed in these pages byMargaret Atwood. "If there were any 
> doubts
> about her stature as a pre-eminent American novelist, of her own or 
> any other
> generation," Atwood wrote, " 'Beloved' will put them to rest. In three 
> words or
> less, it's a hair-raiser." Atwood continued: " 'Beloved' is written in 
> an
> antiminimalist prose that is by turns rich, graceful, eccentric, 
> rough, lyrical,
> sinuous, colloquial and very much to the point." >>
>
> What Spy magazine used to call "Log-rolling in our time."

Not sure that you're really all that competitive with Margaret Attwood 
in the talent or taste stakes there, Mal.

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