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This is turning out to be a great week! http://i.imgur.com/8zSo98s.jpg?1
— Sep 04, 2014 12:07PM
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Sep 04, 2014 12:11PM
Looks like you got more than just her two popular novels!
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Nathan "N.R." wrote: "Looks like you got more than just her two popular novels!"Popular you say?--I'm more worried about the quality of these things, which I hadn't checked before buying. Suffice it to say, that a number of pages are gripping the spine but barely..........................................................
Eric wrote: ".................."Darn tootin'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Eric wrote: "Popular you say?"Her two best-known at the moment are Manservant and Maidservant and A House and Its Head, both published by NYRB. None of the others are currently in print, as far as I know.
Edit: Also Pastors and Masters from Hesperus Press, but that doesn't seem to have received as much attention.
I got her name from Ali who indicated her as possibly 'experimental' in so far as her books are large=percentage dialogue, apparently.
Nathan "N.R." wrote: "I got her name from Ali who indicated her as possibly 'experimental' in so far as her books are large=percentage dialogue, apparently."Experimental you say?
Jacob wrote: "NYRB"Good to know. Let's hope my mansavants don't take issue.
Eric wrote: "Experimental you say?"Right. Meant to leave you a link to Ali's comment ::
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Nathan "N.R." wrote: "I got her name from Ali who indicated her as possibly 'experimental' in so far as her books are large=percentage dialogue, apparently."And therefore.... Steven Moore mentions her three times in his vI of The Novel ; usually in close proximity to "Gaddis".
