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His cheerful admission of this writerly tactic presages not only the friendly tone of the entire book but also one of its shortcomings.
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Timothy Snyder, Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011
His great achievement, and Moses’s and Neugebauer’s, lies in the fact that such an effusion — hardly the only one in The Ally — feels not only truthful but real, earned and human, an expression not of writerly grandiosity but of character need.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2024
Ruth, as a character, alternates frustratingly between writerly perceptiveness and more stereotyped neuroses.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 17 Feb. 2024
Books Jonathan Franzen shares some secrets, sort of, in his first public appearance for ‘Crossroads’
April 24, 2022
Hill works through this, with some success, through sheer writerly grace.
—Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2023
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Timothy Snyder, Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011
His great achievement, and Moses’s and Neugebauer’s, lies in the fact that such an effusion — hardly the only one in The Ally — feels not only truthful but real, earned and human, an expression not of writerly grandiosity but of character need.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2024
Ruth, as a character, alternates frustratingly between writerly perceptiveness and more stereotyped neuroses.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 17 Feb. 2024
Books Jonathan Franzen shares some secrets, sort of, in his first public appearance for ‘Crossroads’
April 24, 2022
Hill works through this, with some success, through sheer writerly grace.
—Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2023
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