Elbow Room | Phillip M. Richards
In the following review, Richards discusses Crabcakes, Mcpherson's memoir, comparing themes in the work to those found in his Elbow Room collection.
Phillip M. Richards
In the following review, Richards discusses Crabcakes, Mcpherson's memoir, comparing themes in the work to those found in his Elbow Room collection.
Pulitzer-Prize winner James Alan Mcpherson has written two highly regarded collections of short fiction, and the pleasures and insights offered by Crabcakes are those of a well-crafted story. This memoir uses the epiphanies and dramatic resolutions of fiction to generate the religious and ethical insight of spiritual autobiography. Mcpherson traces the psychological path from early...
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