Sheed, Wilfrid (Vol. 4) - Sheed, Wilfrid 1930–
Sheed, Wilfrid 1930–
Sheed is an Anglo-American novelist, short story writer, critic, and essayist. His fiction, crisp and satirical, is concerned with social and intellectual encounters and is characterized by an immensely attractive style.
As it happens, Wilfrid Sheed is indeed one of the nation's most gifted writers…. Sheed has been gathering points for years with such novels as A Middle Class Education, The Hack, Square's Progress and the [other] works….
Curiously, Max Jamison has been greeted by most book reviewers as a fair approximation of a critic but a foul caricature of a human being. Apparently, nothing is too bad for a critic, nor too good for a human being. My reaction to Jamison is quite the opposite in that I find him believable as a human being and unbelievable as a critic. I simply can't buy the utter joylessness and egregiousness of the scene he covers. But then,… I have always thought of Sheed as more of a...
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