Word: dreiserian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS, by Joyce Carol Gates. A painful and naunting Dreiserian story of a poor little girl who acquires everything except happiness...
...secular" sexpot with eyes like black plums. For Oliver, a chapel-going apothecary's son, marriage is unthinkable with either, even when he gets Evie pregnant (or so she lets him think). It sounds like an un-American tragedy; yet Golding's story is no glum Dreiserian dirge. Eros wears a comic mask...
...GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS, by Joyce Carol Gates. This is the season for female discontent: Joyce Carol Gates joins Philip Roth (When She Was Good) in portraying a poor girl determined to make good, but fated to go mad. A naturalistic, Dreiserian novel of considerable power...