A.N.Smith (ansmith@netdoor.com)
Mon, 4 Oct 1999 07:56:12 -0500
Sorry it was off topic. Won't mention again. But you've all
been a great help and now I think I'll be able to fix
it.
To pick up an earlier thread that was dropped (because I
don't think many have read the book yet, it being so new),
Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn looks like book of the year
material. Worthy of literary prizes while still fitting
snuggly into the Hardboiled category. Interesting, because
you can tell Lethem has a love for genre, and in all his
books, he works inside the genre to tear it apart and
remodel. The narrator with Tourette's forces the reader to
re-think how language will be approached in this, keeps us on
our toes because we can't finish the sentences in our heads
ahead of time. My vote--add it to the reading list next
year.
Neil Smith
-- # To unsubscribe, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" to # To unsubscribe, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" to majordomo@icomm.ca. # The web pages for the list are at http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/ .
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.0b3 on Mon 04 Oct 1999 - 08:58:36 EDT