Tut, tut, and a little history

Andrew Bollen · 29 Jul 2003, 13:22 · from urth-v0307.mbox · original

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From: "Andrew Bollen" <abollen at internode.on.net>
Subject: Re: (urth) Tut, tut, and a little history
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 23:22:52 +1000
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alga wrote amidst lots of interesting stuff:

> Mark Halprin published "The Winter's Tale,"
> same sort of book, widely reviewed, but I never could finish reading it.

I thought of this book while I was reading the LB discussion here -
specifically the New York stuff. I liked it when I was a youngster, but I
couldn't finish it when I tried it again a couple of years ago - kind of
flatulent and self-indulgent, though some of the set-pieces were nice.
Dhalgren was certainly a better book, IMO.

Helprin is/was a New Yorker regular, I think? I guess that would help for
getting mainstream cred, as against being locked up in a genre box.

--=20

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