Word: dreiser
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mentioning the only Hoosier President, Benjamin Harrison, in the same breath as Marjorie Main, Jimmy Hoffa, John Dillinger and Eugene Debs. He talks familiarly of Booth Tarkington, remarks that James Whitcomb Riley was "more of a devotee of the glass than the typewriter," and notes that "we had Theodore Dreiser, who wrote Sister Carrie and scared everybody in Indiana right out of their wits." He brings up that other literary figure, one James Buchanan Elmore, author of the lines: "My wife has gone ahunting/ Horseradish for her meat." Branigin pauses after that recitation, as if savoring the image, then observes...
...Passage to India. The 1925 fiction list gave first place to A. Hamilton Gibbs's Soundings, while Lewis' Arrowsmith took seventh place. But even then, Scott Fitzgerald's reputation was not strong enough to install The Great Gatsby among the top ten. Also missing: Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy...
...GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS, by Joyce Carol Gates. Miss Gates is a throwback to Dreiser-a realistic novelist, telling an old-fashioned story about a girl who puts success before virtue...
...GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS, by Joyce Carol Gates. Miss Gates is a throwback to Dreiser-a realistic novelist, telling an old-fashioned story about a girl who put success before virtue...
...goin' to get it." Only in the last 50 or 60 pages of the book does the author loosen the string of tension that she has drawn, and the story turns unnecessarily melodramatic. In the end, what promises to be one of the most acridly realistic novels since Dreiser never quite takes the prize...