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...quotes from and about writers) is devoted to buttressing the statements made in the essays. Olsen largely overcomes the problem of disjointedness by carefully organizing and tying these quotes together. She cites famous authors who have suffered "silences"--among them Thomas Hardy, Herman Melville, Willa Cather, and Jane Austen--as well as the less well-known, and the selections give on a good sense of the hell a lot of people have gone through for the sake...
...plight of the cowboy in the age of computer ranching is a familiar story. Journalist Jane Kramer nevertheless manages to refresh the tale with a selection of tactful though telling observations and details that, with allowances for scenery and idiom, remind one of Jane Austen at Mansfield Park. "Onion was ornery and bucked a lot and enjoyed kicking over the chair that Henry, at six, climbed to mount him. It took a while for them to arrive at the abusive, affectionate arrangement that Henry later claimed was so instructive to them both...
This novel is J.P. Donleavy's most sustained effort at social comedy. But his stylistic idiosyncrasies are geared to convey energy rather than reflection. The gaudy array of types who tumble through Dar cy's life are more remarkable than remarked upon. The works of Jane Austen and Evelyn Waugh provide an object lesson here: if the subject of a novel is manners, the writer must be on his very best...
...young ladies from the Eastchester School, Elizabeth Justice, Cheryl Feldman, Patricia van Buskirk and Laura Campo, are the scheming debutantes who amuse themselves with Jane Austen novels, croquet and garden parties while all the time secretly wishing for men. Their hopes are answered with the four forest rangers, Josh Goldhaber, Kent Griswold, Mike Fancher and Jon Weinberg. The rangers try to come across as boyish Keystone Kops, which is fine, but their image would be more effective if they were all clean-shaven...
Sensible Shoes. In effect, Lacey has treated Elizabeth as a minor character in a Jane Austen novel. An "unassuming mother of four" who dotes on a "quiet life in the country surrounded by horses and dogs," she tramps over for tea in her sensible shoes and serves modestly to swell a scene or two, mostly by making other people look brilliant. But how to turn her into a heroine...