Byatt, A. S. The Matisse Stories. Chatto and Windus.
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Literary responses | Evelyn Sharp | A. S. Byatt
in early 2008 found herself interested and excited by this book (then about to be reprinted). She described Sharp as perspicacious, witty and a very good writer. “Back—due to popular demand”. The Guardian, pp. Review 4 - 6. 4 |
Literary responses | Willa Cather | This novel won the Prix Femina Américain. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. Urgo, Joseph R., and Willa Cather. “Introduction. Willa Cather: A Brief Chronology. A Note on the Text”. My Ántonia, edited by Joseph R. Urgo and Joseph R. Urgo, Broadview Press, pp. 9-39. 37 |
Literary responses | Monica Dickens | It was this year that A. S. Byatt
registered in print her deep admiration of MD
(who, for her part, thought Byatt underestimated the humour in her books). “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (2 November 1970): 12 |
Literary responses | Ali Smith | A. S. Byatt
praised Smith's novel as sharp, witty, innovatory and moving, Byatt, A. S. “An exciting event this year has been the publication. ”. The Times Literary Supplement, No. 5670, p. 9. 9 |
Literary responses | Ruth Fainlight | |
Literary responses | Hilary Mantel | HM
already features in critical surveys of the modern British novel, such as that by Nick Rennison
, 2004. A. S. Byatt
discusses her (among writers of both sexes including predecessors Elizabeth Bowen
and Muriel Spark |
Literary responses | Muriel Spark | Graham Greene
offered the same accolade as for her previous novel, recognizing its disappointing reception with: What fools the reviewers have been. Greene, Graham. Graham Greene. A Life in Letters. Editor Greene, Richard, Alfred A. Knopf. 317 |
Literary responses | Alice Munro | The Selected Stories was hailed as an important literary event, and produced particularly interesting reviews from A. S. Byatt
and John Updike
. Byatt wrote that Munro was the equal of Chekhov
or de Maupassant |
Literary responses | Muriel Spark | This novel was nominated for the Booker McConnell Prize in the year of its publication. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research. 76 |
Literary responses | Elaine Feinstein | A. S. Byatt
called Mother's Girla major achievement. Feinstein, Elaine. It Goes with the Territory. Alma. 245 |
Literary responses | Alice Munro | After it won the O. Henry Prize (in the first year in which Canadians were eligible for this award) Munro described the genesis of the title story in an actual occurrence where a woman and... |
Literary responses | Margaret Atwood | Novelist and critic Aritha Van Herk
found this volume less playful than its predecessors,a dry and dire collection . . . . Atwood as Cassandra, wailing her prophecy in the ear of a deaf... |
Literary responses | Alice Munro | Among a rich harvest of prizes and honours, AM
won the Giller Prize in both 1998 and 2004. In 2002 an Alice Munro Literary Garden, just beside the museum, was dedicated in Wingham, Ontario... |
Literary responses | Pat Barker | With this novel PB
won the Guardian Fiction Prize. A. S. Byatt
wrote that the book provided a new vision of what the First World War did to human beings, male and female, soldiers and... |
Literary responses | Penelope Fitzgerald | This volume prompted A. S. Byatt
to call its author Jane Austen
's nearest heir. “Flamingo Press advertisement for ’The Means of Escape’ by Penelope Fitzgerald”. London Review of Books, p. 21. 21 |
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