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New England White |
| Published: June 11, 2007, 9:55 am |
| Tags: new england white, stephen carter, fiction |
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Our book today is New England White, the second novel by Yale law professor Stephen Carter, whose first book, The Emperor of Ocean Park, was the source of much controversy and the object of much critical praise.A great deal of that critical praise was of a decidedly anxious nature, with reviewers not knowing exactly what to MAKE of Carter's book. The Emperor of Ocean Park is gorgeously, intricately written, and lord knows the critics had no problem with that, per se. But the book was also not only heavily plot-driven but driven by a plot that was a) comprehensible, b) exciting, and c) expertly handled. Critics accustomed to slathering undeserved praise all over the latest precosities of Haruki Murakami, Charles Frazier, or Michael Ondaajte experienced a slight tremble at this kind of writing; a little plot (or, as writing workshops would call it, plot-structure) might be a good thing (might, mind you - plot does so get in the way of gauzy autobiographical [ Full article ] |
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