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...interests are topical, not topological. Even dedicated subscribers to the old New Yorker can be forgiven if their eyes lost traction on McPhee's exotic terrain and skidded to the cartoons. Those who stayed with "Annals" soon learned to appreciate the enterprise. McPhee is a master of expository prose...
Hijuelos creates a series of vibrant snapshots from the lives of different members of the Montez O'Brien clan, all rendered in the writer's exquisitely sensuous prose. The sisters are the title characters of the book, and there is much female activity, including cooking, childbearing and lovemaking, but Hijuelos is much too macho a writer to surrender himself entirely to a feminine -- don't even think about feminist -- world. Thus a big chunk of the book focuses on brother Emilio's exploits as he fights in Italy during World War II, beds his way through postwar Greenwich Village, beats...
...Connor Award for Short Fiction for his collection of short stories, Low Flying Aircraft. Critics greeted his short stories with open arms. They all loved his "voice." A reviewer for San Francisco Chronicle described his "original language;" in The New York Times a critic gushed about his "stark, imaginistic prose...
McNally's prose undermines his work. In an overly naturalistic tone, ideas tumble out, one after another, unordered, unexplained. Each sentence yields another non sequitur. This style has its merit. He captures perfectly the inarticulateness of human psychology. The helplessness of the characters, the half hearted flailing of the plot, and the unfathomable morass of the prose are expressive and poignant. But they do not make a novel; they do not satisfy the reader...
Until Your Heart Stops gets caught in its own trap. McNally employs a simple naturalistic style in his prose and plot which loses itself in the maze it seeks to depict. He creates a world so true to life in its senselessness that the audience finds it meaningless. Its premise of the book is McNally wants to teach us that we cannot be taught...