Word: reads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...reviewer resorts to a list of persuasive reasons in order to 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...
...days later, on October 26, the Undergraduate Council sent a letter of its own to the Corporation. "The issue of divestment is an important one and requires real communication between members of the Harvard community and its administrators," the council letter read...
...interweaving of some of these themes, the webs of imagery, the elegant prose with its pricks of irony and cadences of poetry, all make The Enchanter a worthwhile read. Admittedly it is one of the author's lesser works, a weak prototype of Lolita...
...standard argument for increasing literacy is to beat the Japanese by building up our competitive edge," Kozol said in an interview last week. "Literacy advocates rarely talk about literature. But is it too much to think that poor people might like to read other things than rule books...