Breslin, Jimmy - Breslin, Jimmy 1930–
Breslin, Jimmy 1930–
Breslin, an American writer, is well known in New York for his syndicated newspaper columns and his political activities.
Breslin is a local colorist of this city [New York], particularly of Queens; he has the place, the time and the speech…. Breslin writes prose in a New York idiom with a shrewdness all his own, but for things beyond our borders his style has limitations. He employed it to good comic effect in "The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight" and he has adopted it sagely in the New York chapters of this chilling book [World Without End, Amen]. Among the horrors of Belfast and Derry, however, it often seems inappropriate. That is something one does not like to say of a writer so much to be valued for his rightness about things on his own turf.
Harvey Gardner, in The New York Times Book Review (© 1973 by The New York Times Company; reprinted by permission), August 26, 1973, pp. 6,...
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