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ABOVE ALL. Renata Adler's new novel, Pitch Dark, suffers from a preponderance of style over substance. Impeccably written, this fourth novel by a frequent contributor to the New Yorker lacks the one ingredient necessary to sustain the reader's interest, a story...
...Likewise, after abandoning the car, she hitches to the airport with a truck driver and it is here that the book's most interesting dialogue takes place. These are the rare occasions when the reader catches Kate outside of the stifling confines of her mind. During moments like these, Adler reveals a true gift of storytelling but she never carries through with them. They are false starts. For some frustrating reason, Adler refuses to leave Kate in one situation for too long a time, letting her muse instead in a vacuum...
...Adler's writing almost makes the book worth-while despite the dearth of plot. The lean prose, pared down to the minimum, has an almost lyrical simpleness. She fills the pages with repetitions and refrains giving the novel its one redeeming feature, its rhythm...
FICTION: The Anatomy Lesson, Philip Roth ∙The Collected Stories of Colette, edited by Robert Phelps Life and Times of Michael K, J.M. Coetzee ∙Pitch Dark, Renata Adler The Salt Line, Elizabeth Spencer Shame, Salman Rushdie...
...Killed the Robins Family?, Adler and Chastain...