Critical Essay by Arthur Mizener
"A Summer Place" is much better written than "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit." The trouble is that this craftsmanship serves a conceptio...
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Critical Essay by Time
[A Summer Place] keeps the reader in suspense at the end of every chapter—waiting for the soap commercial. Can Molly Jorgenson and Johnny Hunter, teen-age lovers and tro...
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Critical Essay by William James Smith
Off in a world not quite of its own there is a realm of literary endeavor known as "women's fiction."… Novels of this genre appear se...
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I'm typing this on someone else's computer while listening to her PJ Harvey CD on her stereo, occasionally glancing out her window at her lovely Soho view. Taking a break, I pat her trusty golden r...
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Critical Essay by Arthur Mizener
House-Sitting Politics: Food, Perfume, Dogs\'d0 All Mine! Or Is It?
