Subject: Re: More on Franzen
From: Jim Rovira (jrovira@drew.edu)
Date: Fri Nov 16 2001 - 09:37:09 GMT
Yep, Scottie, you have a point. But while Salinger wrote about similar
subject matter (apparently), he sure wasn't as dense, was he? At least
not until much later...
C -- yep, the article I posted was actually about Franzen winning the
National Book Award...those quotes, though, killed me :). I wonder if
he won (at least partly) because he dissed Oprah :)
Jim
Scottie Bowman wrote:
>
> On the basis of that first chapter from the Times review,
> he's certainly too hard slogging for me - still seeming to
> labour, as he does, under the misapprehension that inclusion
> rather than selection is what does the trick. Can you imagine?
> Another 560 pages - & all about some dysfunctional family
> or other.
>
> Jesus.
>
> Still. Who does that remind me of?
>
> Scottie B.
>
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