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Compiles the best literary essays of the year originally published in American periodicals
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JOYCE CAROL OATES -- novelist, essayist, critic, poet, playwright, teacher, and short story writer -- is one of the preeminent literary figures and social critics of the twentieth century. Her honors include an NEA grant, a Guggenheim fellowship, the PEN/Malamud Lifetime Achievement Award, and the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Lifetime Achievement in American Literature. She is also a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. The Falls is her most recent novel.
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Oates, in her introduction, defines the essay, ... la Randall Jarrell, as ``prose works of certain lengths that have many more things right about them than wrong.'' Montaigne, Hazlitt, Mandelstam would roll in their graves! Only Richard Rodriguez's ``Late Victorians''--domestic architecture as sexuality in gay San Francisco--brings a remarkable voice to bear on an idea worthy of the great essay masters. From most everybody else here, the essay seems to be something that (1) can't quite be fiction and (2) must be too long (or, if short, smug). Gerald Early's intriguing piece about black female self-image overshoots the runway and travels on and on and on...forever. Likewise Mark Rudman's at first genial piece about walking. Ditto pieces by Reg Saner, Jane Tompkins, Garrett Hongo. On the short, smug side, Elizabeth Hardwick's impressions of New York's desuetude must be the most pretentious thing she's ever written, Gretel Ehrlich's contribution the same. Intellectual and stylistic mediocrity is the province here of Woody Allen, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Frank Conroy, Dorien Ross, Amy Tan, and Joy Williams. A few modest personal pieces do hold their own, powered by self-analysis--by Diana Hume George, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Marianna De Marco Torgovnick; and Margaret Atwood's ``The Female Body'' is vinegary fun. Overall, though, not the essay's finest outing. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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- PublisherTicknor & Fields
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0899199291
- ISBN 13 9780899199290
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages279
- EditorOates Joyce Carol
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