qtd. in
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. Heat and Dust. Penguin, 1994.
back cover
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Literary responses | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | Among many enthusiastic reviews, that in the Sunday Times stands out: A writer of genius . . . . a writer of world class—a master story teller. qtd. in Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. Heat and Dust. Penguin, 1994. back cover |
Literary responses | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | Updike
again complained about RPJ
's refusal of sympathy to her characters. Robert Towers
went further: linking this with Jhabvala's gender and (British) nationality, he accused her of revelling in her characters' discomfiture and degradation... |
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 | Edna O'Brien | This novel was well received: John Updike
called it a brilliant and beautiful book. qtd. in Halio, Jay L., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 14. Gale Research, 1982–1983. 578 Wheeler, Kathleen. A Guide to Twentieth-Century Women Novelists. Blackwell, 1997. 205 |
Literary responses | Buchi Emecheta | John Updike
, writing about this novel in the New Yorker in 1984, called BENigeria's best-known female writer, qtd. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Gale Research, 1973–2024, Numerous volumes. 48: 99 |
Literary responses | Sylvia Townsend Warner | Many critics praising the quality of her writing have noted that she began her literary career as a poet. John Updike
, in the New Yorker, suggested that this enabled her to retain magic... |
Literary responses | Sylvia Townsend Warner | John Updike
commented in a review on the range of unlikely material that STW
converted into fiction: She has the spiritual digestion of a goat. qtd. in Harman, Claire. Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography. Chatto and Windus, 1989. 287 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Sue Townsend | As a single mother struggling with poverty, ST
often wrote at night while her children were in bed. She hoarded the results in a box in the cupboard under the stairs, but I knew I... |
Reception | Anita Brookner | This book provoked an unusual article from journalist Mark Lawson
, centred less on Brookner than on his own response. I have mocked her dessicated sentences, characterless protagonists and action-free narratives, he wrote. The gist... |
Textual Features | Zadie Smith | Her subjects include George Eliot
's Middlemarch, Zora Neale Hurston
, Franz Kafka
, Vonnegut
and Salinger
as cult figures, Roland Barthes
and Vladimir Nabokov
(pitted against each other as attacker and booster of... |
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