Word: prose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Good as Lear's book is in documenting the political maneuverings, it nevertheless suffers from certain organizational and stylistic flaws. Although his prose is generally smooth and well-crafted, he occasionally goes into inordinate scientific detail that would discourage all but the most intrepid layman from finishing his book...
...People of the Lake: Mankind and Its Beginnings (Leakey's second and latest book), which focuses on the Koobi Fora finds, is a credit to Leakey. Leakey and co-author Roger Lewin write intelligent, provocative prose and present their amazing discoveries to readers with just the right combination of lucidity and academic integrity...
Stephen Alter is 21 years old, just out of Yale, and his first published novel strolls with the kind of sweet prose most fiction writers never get near. Like most writers he has structural problems, and he goes overboard sometimes, but this kid has written one hell of a good book...
...slothful habits fall by the wayside. The description of his decision and the absurd steps he takes are fine, but after he gets all cranked up, he simply and predictably caves in again. These trivial moments of neo-existential despair wear kind of thin. Alter's prose, given to somewhat untailored lushness, merges with the decidedly out-of-the mainstream setting to produce an interesting novel that doesn't always have a whole lot under the surface. But the threadbare spots in his carefully woven story get by on the strength of the writing alone...
...main street in 1928, has become a familiar one to shopkeepers of Manhattan's scruffy West Side. The author's first words, when informed of the Nobel Prize, were typically effacing: "Are you sure?" Singer has no plans to change either his life-style or prose style: "Everything will remain the same -same typewriter, same wife, same apartment, same telephone number, same language. I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each...