Woiwode, Larry (Vol. 6) - Woiwode, Larry 1941–
Woiwode, Larry 1941–
Born in North Dakota, Woiwode is a poet, short story writer, and novelist whose fiction often reflects his midwestern background.
When self-doubt, alienation and fashionable pessimism become a bore and, what's worse, a patent delusion, how does one get back to the big emotions, the large and fairly confident life affirmations of an Arnold Bennett, a Dickens, a Dostoevsky?… [How] is one to get back to plain, grown-up talk about love and death?
"Beyond the Bedroom Wall: A Family Album" is a brilliant solution…. It seems to me that nothing more beautiful and moving has been written in years. I was reminded, as I read, of a friend's prediction that the next great movement in literature will be an unashamed return to Victorian copious weeping. That's overoptimistic, probably; but it's a wonderful thing, it seems to me, to laugh and to weep one's slow way through an enormous intelligent novel tracing out the life of a...
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