Sunday, May 29, 2016

CREATIONISTS - E L Doctorow

























This is a collection of essays on authors and their works.

He covers Poe, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, a bit of the Bible, Mark Twain and many others.

All the essays are thought provoking, entertaining and he doesn't really rate E A Poe- His overwrought style is so filled with an essayist's rhetorical vines and brambles that you have to slash and hack if you're to make your way through the story.

A good collection.

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