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A Review Of "Intimate Stranger", Marianne Rogoff
A Review Of "Intimate Stranger", Marianne Rogoff
Marianne Rogoff
Intimate Stranger is a gorgeous guide to writing and the writing life by this South African man of the world. Born in 1939 to a family dating back to seventeenth century White Afrikaners, Breytenbach grew to oppose South Africa’s twentieth century apartheid system, moved to Paris at age 20, and became a writer, painter, and English teacher. There, he met and married a French woman of Vietnamese descent in 1962 despite his home country’s Immorality Act, which legislated against interracial marriage. During his years of exile he published numerous
books of poetry and prose, including A Season in Paradise (1976; …
What Is Found, Marianne Rogoff
What Is Found, Marianne Rogoff
Marianne Rogoff
The book cover, with a wooden rocking cradle and baby shoes dangling from its corner, conjures baby boys, boys who become men, men who become fathers… the ongoing cycle.
The man in Patrick Somerville’s novel,The Cradle, is right in the thick of that terrific, life-altering stage of life when his pregnant wife is about to deliver her miracle. He is present for her as onlooker and provider and partner: at her beck and call, basically. In her eighth month, her power at its peak, Marissa makes a teensy request of Matt: She wants their baby to sleep in …
Humpty Dumpty Was Pushed, Marianne Rogoff
Humpty Dumpty Was Pushed, Marianne Rogoff
Marianne Rogoff
Set inside New York City’s hip-hop scene and the surrounding neighborhoods, ghettoes, and clubs that house its supporting players, Mark Blatte’s Humpty Dumpty Was Pushed is shaded by skin of varying color and thickness. A broad cross-section of races shows up, an extreme mix of attitudes and sizes, with and without connections, talent, ambition, or moral compasses. There are hierarchies of respect, hills and mountains of greed. There’s lust, pride, people climbing over each other, positioning themselves, stomping all those who would get in their way.
Reviews In Brief / The Wasp Eater, Marianne Rogoff
Reviews In Brief / The Wasp Eater, Marianne Rogoff
Marianne Rogoff
In William Lychak's first novel, the child is witness. Daniel, a 10-year- old living in New England, sees everything, processes it, trying to grasp the mysterious, mistaken ways of adults: his mother, Anna; his father, Bob; and his grown cousin Joelyn.
Reviews In Brief / World Famous Love Acts, Marianne Rogoff
Reviews In Brief / World Famous Love Acts, Marianne Rogoff
Marianne Rogoff
Brian Leung's writing is exquisite, deceptively plain, deeply felt and spiritually high, with dead-on depictions of the world as it is and people coping such as they can. He doesn't limit himself to particular character types but eyes all kinds with compassion, true empathy and bursts of clairvoyance.
Reviews In Brief / Do The Blind Dream?, Marianne Rogoff
Reviews In Brief / Do The Blind Dream?, Marianne Rogoff
Marianne Rogoff
On the last page of "Do the Blind Dream?" you'll find a character saying, "One morning, more than thirty years later, I was sitting at a bar in Paris drinking a coffee when, for no particular reason, I thought about ..." and he will wonder if things might have been different if. ...
This is the theme in many stories here: a turning point or moment or scene that has stuck in the mind for 30 or 50 years, and how we are formed by the mistakes and legacies of our parents and ancestors, even after we have run away …