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From:World Literature Today (Vol. 86, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedOn a winter's night last year, I crossed Berlin by subway from my sedate western corner of Charlottenburg to the hip, pitilessly unlit streets behind Hackescher Markt. I dodged the bright trams that are the arteries of...
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From:The Kenyon Review (Vol. 26, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe Maguires' garage was immense, or seemed so, and dimly lit, in such a way that we, the children, cast strange shadows or were in shadow, and you couldn't, as a result, tell how many of us there were. Not many, in...
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From:Ploughshares (Vol. 42, Issue 2)It's thought that when Cervantes embarked on Don Quixote, he intended to write a short novel. Henry James' short stories had a way of growing into novellas and novels, a fate he fondly cursed. With Chekhov, it was the...
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From: New Statesman[(review date 6 September 2004) In the following review of The Zigzag Way, Messud expresses disappointment with the novel's thin characterization, citing the country of Mexico as its most fully realized subject.] Anita...
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From: Times Literary Supplement[(review date 14 May 1993) In the following review, Messud lauds the examination of the lives of travelers in Emerald City.] "Tourists, generally speaking", claims a character in Jane Bowles's novel Two Serious Ladies,...
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From: New York Times Book Review[(review date 29 October 1995) In the following review, Messud praises the characterization of Kwan in Tan's The Hundred Secret Senses, but says that the novel fails to convince.] The tremendous success of Amy Tan's...
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From: New York Times Book Review[(review date 31 January 1999) In the following review, Messud presents a positive assessment of Falling Slowly.] The title of Anita Brookner's latest lament for the unlived life is drawn from the final words of a...
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From: New Statesman[(review date 8 December 2003) In the following review, Messud identifies a new briskness in Lessing's tone within the four novellas that make up the collection The Grandmothers.] The four long stories in Doris...
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From: Nation[(review date 16 May 2005) In the following review, Messud considers Never Let Me Go a reworking of Ishiguro's narrative strategies and thematic preoccupations.] Kazuo Ishiguro is a writer renowned for his capacity to...
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From: Times Literary Supplement[(review date 4 February 1994) In the following review of The Rest of Life, Messud describes the stories as both serious and accessible, and asserts that the title novella is the most moving in the volume.] Mary...