Word: clemmonses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In his introduction to a 1965 reissue of Christina Stead's The Man Who Loved Children, the poet and critic Randall Jarrell defined a novel as "a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it." Stead's celebrated book was indeed lengthy and imperfect. But it had...
Clemmons' cemetery humor keeps grief and the black dog at bay. His wife Phoebe died in a traffic accident and left him with three children to raise. Margy is a full-figured twelve-year-old with well-developed defenses against rutting boys. Younger Ruthann has a scholarly bent but is...
...contemporary standards the Clemmonses are a messed-up conventional family. But how parents and siblings interact during the children's crucial teen years is conveyed in ways that may be unfamiliar. Chase subordinates plot to an arrangement of domestic crises and adolescent rituals. The passage of time is more impressionistic than chronological. Points of view are fluid and exclusively female. The wolves of the title are the male characters, whose sex drives are less complicated than those of the Clemmons girls or their stepmother. Men seem interested in only one thing, or at least in one thing at a time...