Nobel odds or Who will be awarded the Nobel Literature Prize

[David Morris]

Aw, I trusted these reviews instead, not that I DIStrust you...

http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/09/21/reviews/oates-expensive.html

"Miss Oates has no trouble becoming a semi-insane, boy-genius
murderer, but she doesn't quite bring off a talented woman writer [the
boy's neglectful mother]. We do not see many responses to her beauty,
except her son's, so we have to take that quality of hers more or less
on faith too. It is her stupidity, bitchiness, solipsistic outlook,
and superficiality that is portrayed in the novel.

http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/09/21/reviews/oates-them.html

"In "Them" she has taken up with a collection of louche louts and
cunning simpletons gathered together in and around the city of
Detroit, Mich.; she has furnished them with a nice little streak of
domesticated craziness that keeps the novel fluid and enables it to
hit us, every so often, a crashing unpredictable blow over the back of
the head. So, altogether, it's a fine performance-- psychologically
more subtle than "A Garden of Earthly Delights," structurally less
predictable, but with the same strong flow of verbal and imaginative
energy. "

But why the antipathy towards her as a possible nobel-winner?

David Morris

On 10/5/07, Tim Strzechowski <dedalus204 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Shoulda gone with _Expensive People_.  Trust me on this ....
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> > I hope, now that I've ordered "Them," that she's not as bad as their antipathy suggests.