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...Youth), one might conclude that the world's greatest novelist is somehow becoming obsolete. For today's readers, apparently, Dostoevsky needs to be dressed up in motley and passed off as an expert on the generation gap or the counterculture. Indeed, the jacket blurb describes this 97-year-old novel as a work of "extraordinary timeliness...
...nice turnabout, but sympathizing with Snow's dilemma is difficult. The jacket blurb describes him as "Hawthornesque"; and indeed he is an energetic scruple collector. But unlike Hawthorne's eloquent slaves to conscience, Snow is neither articulate nor even very bright, and finally he saps the novel of the considerable drama it might have...
...human spirit. The usual checklist of "youth culture" rhetoric-radicals, drugs, sex, "the establishment"-is so common, that it's become easy to fall into the trap of thinking that no one has anything really important or sensitive to say. It's become easy to read a jacket cover blurb like "Sonzski may be as meaningful for his generation as Salinger was for his" and, as I did, want to throw...
...managed to kill it: A day never goes by at any newspaper without the arrival of review copies of at least five or six new novels, each worse than the one before, each proclaimed by its publisher as the literary epic of the century, each accompanied by a favorable blurb from Publisher's Weekly. (I don't think PW has ever not liked a book...
...year ago today the bill's supporters massed in Gardner Auditorium in the State House to begin to work for the bill's passage. The bill became a prime trial for the people's right to govern themselves, and the book reflects basic liberal hopes and idealism. A jacket blurb quotes George McGovern...