Godwin, Gail (Vol. 5) - Godwin, Gail 1937–
Godwin, Gail 1937–
Ms Godwin is an American novelist and short story writer. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 29-32.)
Coming after the first wave attacks of women's liberation writing, with the virtues and faults of propaganda literature, the more subtle examinations of the categories of power in terms of male/female struggle deal with "power" in a far deeper, far more abstract way—hence, Gail Godwin's two novels [The Perfectionist and Glass People] may be read, instructively, as about the precarious battle for identity of two young "new" women. But this is simply one level and perhaps not the most important one. Miss Godwin is preoccupied with the relationship between private, individual selves and larger, more mythic selves. (p. 8)
[The Glass People] is a formally executed, precise, and altogether professional short novel which deepened my long-cherished belief about certain forms of art: that in...
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