Roiphe, Anne (Vol. 3) - Roiphe, Anne 1935–
Roiphe, Anne 1935–
Ms. Roiphe is an American novelist writing fiction that probes the condition of modern woman. She is the author of Up the Sandbox! and Long Division.
That Mrs. Roiphe is a natural writer of considerable talent is evident; whether or not she has been abetted by an involved and intelligent editor, she is clearly capable of creating a painfully recognizable human character and carrying that character through a series of realities and fantasies to a logical and resonant conclusion. By the nature of her sex and background—which are those of her protagonist—her novel ["Up the Sandbox"] cannot be the virtuoso feat, the tour de force, of Brian Moore's "I Am Mary Dunne," surely one of the best books ever written in the language by a man from a woman's viewpoint, but in a quiet, unsensational, and eventually gripping way Mrs. Roiphe has created a little masterpiece of her own….
With her second novel, Mrs. Roiphe...
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