Lezard, Nicholas. “Toward Gender Parity”. Guardian Weekly, p. 36.
Nicholas Lezard
Standard Name: Lezard, Nicholas
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| Literary responses | Anne Carson | Nicholas Lezard
, reviewing for the Guardian, wrote appreciatively of Carson's high-powered and unstoppably playful intellect. |
| Literary responses | Germaine Greer | Nicholas Lezard
, reviewing this book for The Guardian, proved Greer's point as he both sexualised and personalised his response: She is sui generis, seemingly unstoppable, very often right, and an extraordinarily talented self-publicist... |
| Literary responses | Patricia Highsmith | Nicholas Lezard
, in a review reacting vigorously against a hatchet job from the Times Literary Supplement (which suggested that the quality of the stories would disgrace a student on a creative writing course), praised... |
| Literary responses | Marghanita Laski | The Times Literary Supplement judged that the novel's protagonist was its weakness: Hilary, it complained, remains throughout the guilt-torn and indecisive intellectual made only too familiar in scores of English novels. Maclaren-Ross, Julian. “Moods & Moments”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 2486, p. 613. 613 |
| Literary responses | Ursula K. Le Guin | Nicholas Lezard
's Guardian review (headed Forget Harry Potter . . . . J. K. Rowling) called this book a masterpiece of chilling narration. Lezard ended with praise of its style and its humour (a rare quality... |
| Textual Features | Diana Athill | Nicholas Lezard
wrote in the Guardian that this book teaches, in every line[,] the consolations of age, the common, shareable tone of experience. Athill begins the book, in fact, with her own old age, and... |
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