Word: dreiserians
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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...
...life without the water wings of illusion. At its best, Some Came Running does reflect the cultural claustrophobia of small-town life and the personality quirks that sometimes go with it. At its frequent worst, it is a mishmash of joyless fornication, head-splitting hangovers, and a neo-Dreiserian conviction that life itself is a four-letter word...
...unsavory subject is a homosexual affair between a 13-year-old boy and his 30-year-old seducer, a gas-station attendant. Tesch borrows from Jones the neo-Dreiserian conviction that life itself is a four-letter word. Among Tesch's victims and vermin: a girl who commits incest and goes mad, a wife-beating lush, an aging sadistic homosexual. The most defenseless victim is the English language, e.g., "A pang of lonesomeness settled over him like a cold wet spray." Some might argue that Tesch was a born bad writer. But Gerald, an off-and-on Handy colonist...