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From:Ploughshares (Vol. 20, Issue 2-3)A woman recalls cleaning her mothers apartment in San Francisco after the mother has developed Alzheimer's and can no longer live alone. The memories she encounters in the apartment include those of past visits and the...
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From:Southwest Review (Vol. 89) Peer-ReviewedI drive warily through thick fog toward the coast. Gretchen is peppering me with questions. She leans over, so close that I can smell her cinnamon gum. "Work's hectic," I tell my sister, "lots of people drifting in...
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From: Nation[(review date 17 June 1996) In the following review, Miner describes Mona in the Promised Land as a witty but ultimately uneventful novel.] What may distinguish our immigrant parents from the general mass of fretting...
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From: Chicago Tribune Books[(review date 6 July 1997) In the following review, Miner lauds Brain Fever as “rewarding for that large population of us who have been both Catholic and crazy.”] Valerie Sayers' fifth book, Brain Fever, is a...
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From: Women's Review of Books[(review date April 1995) In the following excerpt, Miner provides a mixed review of Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?, praising Moore's prose style but finding flaws in the story's extenuated form as novel rather than a...
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From: Los Angeles Times Book Review[(review date 23 April 1989) In the following review, Miner offers a positive assessment of Charades.] Many Americans will read this wildly imaginative novel as a contemporary version of "1,001 Nights" or as an attempt...
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From: Christian Science Monitor[(essay date 11 February 1980) In the following review, Miner praises The Madwoman in the Attic for "uncovering a discernible female imagination."] The grand success of this study is that it stimulates us to re-read...
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From: NationTo be without a family in America is to be deprived not just of that family, but of an entire arsenal of allusive material as cohesive as algae covering a pond.Is this really Joyce Carol Oates, intrepid archeologist in...
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From: The New York Times Book Review[At Paradise Gate is] about families and death and the deathlessness of families.... [Smiley considers] the afterlife of survivors who, in their grief, encounter both sides of mortality—their relatives' deaths and their...
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From: Los Angeles Times Book Review[(review date 4 April 1993) In the following mixed review of Written by Herself: Autobiographies of American Women, Miner praises the inspirational autobiographies included in the anthology, but criticizes Conway's...
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From: The American Book ReviewVision. Visibility. Sight. Hindsight. Insight. Second Sight. This is the metaphorical spectrum of Audre Lorde's bright new prose work Zami. Zami is a Carriacou name for women who work together as friends and lovers....
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From: Women's Review of Books[(review date December 1985) In the following review, Miner praises The Magnificent Spinster as "provocative in itself and as a mirror of past work, reflecting such classic Sarton issues as social conscience, aging,...
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From: Old Maids to Radical Spinsters: Unmarried Women in the Twentieth-Century Novel[(essay date 1991) Miner is a novelist, short story writer, editor, critic, and educator. In the essay below, she examines the ways in which Sarton represents lesbians and single women in her writings, noting in...
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From: Chicago Tribune Books[(review date 6 July 1997) In the following review, Miner lauds Brain Fever as “rewarding for that large population of us who have been both Catholic and crazy.”] Valerie Sayers' fifth book, Brain Fever, is a...
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From: Women's Review of Books[(review date January 1997) In the following review, Miner commends the narrative form of Pushing the Bear, maintaining that "the fragmented story line keeps readers in the painful present of the Cherokee ordeal."]...
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From: Los Angeles Times Book Review[(essay date 1988) The following essay provides an account of Miner's meeting with Astley in Sydney, Australia, in 1988.] The Brilliant Career of Thea Astley Sydney, Australia. The compact, graying woman with the...
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From: The Women’s Review of Books[(essay date 2001) In the following review, Miner praises The Hero’s Walk as a “portrait of a downwardly mobile Brahmin family” and calls Badami “a provocative, compassionate writer.”] In these intricate, dramatic...
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From: Women's Review of Books[(review date May 1993) In the following review, Miner offers a negative assessment of Written on the Body.] Written on the Body is a short, dense novel fueled by intellectual ego and graced with wit. Jeanette...