Critical Essay by Tom Seligson
It is his experience behind bars—seven years for armed robbery and felonious assault—that Thomas examines in … "Seven Long Times."
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Critical Essay by Joan Smith
[Seven Long Times] joins the ranks of other first person accounts of imprisonment and testifies to the inhumane and generally repressive nature of those institutions.
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Critical Essay by Denise M. Wilms
Stylistically, these storied reminiscences [in Stories from El Barrio] suffer from restraints imposed by a writer not totally at home with a juvenile audience. They ...
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Critical Essay by Thomas Lask
In one way, the Barrio (the Puerto Rican enclave in New York) is all over ["Stories from El Barrio"]. The street argot with its mixture of English and Span...
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Critical Essay by Barry Beckham
[Reading] "Savior, Savior, Hold My Hand" reminds us that most of our experiences are not that interesting to others. Accordingly, the bulk of Thomas�...
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Critical Essay by Tom Seligson
