Critical Essay by Peter S. Prescott
One of the things that popular fiction can do well is to work up in its readers a little awe at the horrors that life makes available to us all and then conclude i...
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Critical Essay by Christopher Lehmann-haupt
I can't complain that I wasn't moved by Judith Guest's "Second Heaven."… I was moved, I really was. I felt tense ...
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Critical Essay by Time
In her second work of fiction [Second Heaven], Best-selling Author Judith Guest … has rearranged the furniture, repapered the bathroom and polished the silver. Unfortuna...
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Critical Essay by Michele M. Leber
Guest's first novel, Ordinary People …, was such a publishing/media event that her second is bound to be closely scrutinized and compared. Second Heav...
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Critical Essay by Kirkus Reviews
Ordinary People was no fluke: [Guest's second novel Second Heaven] again expertly catches middle-class loners in the first crackles of seismic rebellion agains...
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Critical Essay by Jonathan Yardley
To get right to the question at hand, the answer is Yes Judith Guest has done it again. The hundreds of thousands of readers who were touched and amused by her love...
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Critical Essay by Norma Rosen
[In] "Second Heaven," Judith Guest brings her own passionate moral concerns to a fine, old-style, high-drama confrontation with evil. (p. 12)
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Critical Essay by Peter S. Prescott
