Word: reader
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...positive review, on the other hand, challenges both critic and reader. The reviewer wants to relay the book's "not-to-be-missed" quality, without quoting endlessly. If he succeeds, the reader will struggle to find time for the book between work, meetings, socializing...or lectures, studying, and midterms...
PETER TAYLOR, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1985, has written a novel to make critics feel their tremendous responsibility. How can the reviewer force his reader to understand that A Summons to Memphis, this sharply perceptive, humorous novel of only 200 pages, should be read at once? How can he demand, "Just stop what you're doing right now and read this book," without seeming either blunt or irrelevant...
...convince. For those who read to escape a stifling environment, A Summons to Memphis explores the modern cities of Nashville and Memphis from the perspective of a relocated Tennessean in Manhattan. Taylor creates a dynamic representation of Southern society, a world that holds surprises and revelations even for a reader who grew up in such a climate...
Finally, for the pressured reader in search of humor, A Summons to Memphis provides it. The comedy is situational, two spinster sisters preventing their octagenerian father from remarrying; descriptive, this same eccentric duo frequenting nightclubs, dressed in sequined, clingy, front-and-back plunging fashions; and double-edged, undercut by a gently cynical realism. The comic sensibility is particular to Taylor's novel, but the truths revealed are universal...
...symbol of counterculture and the sense of rebellion against the establishment," said Allan Brison of Somerville, who said he is not an avid reader of poetry but simply likes what Ginsberg stands...