Alex Clark

Standard Name: Clark, Alex

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Muriel Spark
Alex Clark in The Guardian wrote: It is hard to think of another writer who could devise such a brashly absurd plot and then execute it with both flair and gravity
Clark, Alex. “Sympathy for the Devil”. Guardian Weekly, p. 18.
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—and exceptional intelligence.
Literary responses Fay Weldon
Alex Clark , reviewing, wrote that this book, like its predecessor, remorselessly poke[s] away at . . . the often bitter arguments that feminism is having with itself.
Clark, Alex. “Death of a She Devil by Fay Weldon review’provocative to the end”. theguardian.com.
Literary responses A. S. Byatt
Reviewer Alex Clark found this a very dark novel, driven by an unsparing view of human nature and a clear-eyed analysis of the idea of human perfectibility, as well as the moral responsibility that comes...
Literary responses Jane Gardam
Alex Clark found this a dazzling collection which creates an especially intense relationship with its reader. The characters often seem to inhabit a world far larger than that of a constricting short story, and we...
Literary responses Ruth Rendell
Guardian reviewer Alex Clark complimented RR on her deftness at importing nuanced complexity into accessible thrillers, and the relish she so clearly feels for her off-the-wall creations.
Clark, Alex. “Serpent in the Grass”. Guardian Weekly.
(18 August 2001)
Reception Helen Oyeyemi
This novel was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Critics praised it, commenting less often than before on HO 's youth but rather seeing this as fulfilling her earlier promise. Alex Clark
Textual Features Zadie Smith
ZS 's story Moonlight Landscape with Bridge, selected by Philip Hensher for his Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story features a politician making good his escape from a disaster zone. Reviewer Alex Clark

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Texts

Clark, Alex. “Baileys prize winner Naomi Alderman on fame, Trump and Wonder Woman”. theguardian.com.
Clark, Alex. “Boy, Snow, Bird review – Helen Oyeyemi plays with myth and fairytale”. The Guardian, The Guardian.
Clark, Alex. “Carol Shields”. The Guardian, p. 23.
Clark, Alex. “Death of a She Devil by Fay Weldon review’provocative to the end”. theguardian.com.
Clark, Alex. “Serpent in the Grass”. Guardian Weekly.
Clark, Alex. “Shadowy treasury of tales for children”. Guardian Weekly, pp. 38-9.
Clark, Alex. “Sympathy for the Devil”. Guardian Weekly, p. 18.
Clark, Alex. “The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story—a standout survey”. theguardian.com.