Wright, Richard B(ruce) - Wright, Richard B(ruce) 1937–
Wright, Richard B(ruce) 1937–
Wright, a Canadian novelist, worked for several years as a journalist and radio copywriter.
[Wright's first novel, "The Weekend Man," is] a crisp, quite nastily passive first-person narrative, its characters viewed with a disingenuously snide eye. "In the Middle of a Life," is third-person, sweeter, sadder (and a small middle-aged spread of clichés has appeared in Wright's style). But readers of the first one, if they should come across the second, may well wonder if they are reading a revision.
As a suspicious youth, I thought that writers who repeated themselves were a gyp. Then I began to understand that, exceptions and complexities granted, it is the writers with the most prolonged impact on society who are likely to repeat themselves, whose themes are obsessive, and lesser writers who are bound to give you something new each time. But it's all according to how you do it…. [Nothing] could have prepared me...
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