New York Times Book Review

• New York Times Book Review Bastard out of Carolina: (Plume Essential Edition) Dorothy Allison   Simply stunning... as close to flawless as any reader could ask for... When I finished reading it, I wanted to blow a bugle to alert the public that a wonderful work of fiction by a major new talent has arrived on the scene. Please reserve a seat of honor at the high table of the art of fiction for Dorothy Allison. The special qualities of her style include a perfect ear for speech and its natural rythms; an unassertive, cumulative lyricism; an intentsely imagined and presented sensory world; and above all, a language for the direct articulation of deep and complex feelings.

  Submitted May 4th 09 by Writersrecommendations, 0 comments

• New York Times Book Review A Walk on the Wild Side Nelson Algren   The intensity of his feeling, the accuracy of his thought, make me wonder if any other writer of our time has shown us more exactly the human basis of our democracy. Though Algren often defines his positive values by showing us what happens in their absence, his hell burns with passion for heaven.

  Submitted Apr 29th 09 by Writersrecommendations, 0 comments

• New York Times Book Review The House of the Spirits Isabel Allende   Spectacular!

  Submitted Apr 29th 09 by Writersrecommendations, 0 comments

• New York Times Book Review Lynelle by the Sea Laurie Albanese   Strong... takes unexpected twists and turns.

  Submitted Apr 29th 09 by Writersrecommendations, 0 comments

• New York Times Book Review Tales from Watership Down Richard Adams   It's grand to see Mr. Adams's characters again.

  Submitted Apr 27th 09 by Writersrecommendations, 0 comments

• New York Times Book Review Chatterton Peter Ackroyd   Chatterton is a wonderfully vivid book, continuously at home to its many lives... Superb.

  Submitted Apr 27th 09 by Writersrecommendations, 0 comments