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Compulsively readable... Allison can make an ordinary moment transcendent with her sensuous mix of kitchen-sink realism and down-home drawl.
Submitted May 4th 09 by Writersrecommendations, 0 comments -
Powerful, tender and wry... Alther's genius as a novelist is her ability to capture and juxtapose the odd combinations of personality, gender, class, culture, family life, and chance that shape human destinies.
Submitted May 4th 09 by Writersrecommendations, 0 comments -
An eminently readable, wide-ranging romp across the rocky landscape of womanly love... Lisa Alther is a compulsively entertaining writer.
Submitted May 4th 09 by Writersrecommendations, 0 comments -
Constantly readable, often beautiful, immensely compelling.
Submitted Apr 29th 09 by Writersrecommendations, 0 comments -
An exotic dance that beguiles and entices... The enchanted and enchanting account of a contemporary Scheherazade, a wide-eyed South American teller-of-tales who triumphs over harsh reality through the creative power of her own imagination... Imaginative, original, convincing, pointed and spiced with good humor and wit.
Submitted Apr 29th 09 by Writersrecommendations, 0 comments -
One of those rare literary experiments that begins almost too clever for its own good and in the end not only justifies its cleverness but trancends it.
Submitted Apr 27th 09 by Writersrecommendations, 0 comments -
Compelling throughout... we don't want to leave Rachel without knowing everything that happens to her for the rest of her life.
Submitted Apr 22nd 09 by Writersrecommendations, 0 comments -
A promising new voice in science fiction.
Submitted Apr 20th 09 by Writersrecommendations, 0 comments -
The ultimate virtual-reality saga, borrowing motifs from cyberpunk, mythology and world history.
Submitted Apr 20th 09 by Writersrecommendations, 0 comments