Critical Essay by Jerome Charyn
"A Family Gathering" is a tight, unpretentious novel about the little crumbling disorders and disentanglements of nieces, nephews, uncles and aunts…...
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Critical Essay by Sheldon Frank
A Family Gathering is what one always hopes a first novel will be—a fresh, carefully crafted, and moving story. The ending is a bit unconvincing, but that is a q...
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Critical Essay by The Virginia Quarterly Review
Alan Broughton does not hesitate to treat subjects that have been treated before, but he does it so well [in A Family Gathering] that one cannot hold it...
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Critical Essay by John Leonard
Everything in "Winter Journey" corresponds—twice, wine is thrown in someone's face; three times, a face is slapped; faces are bruised and sma...
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Critical Essay by John Casey
[This] is what it is like to read "Winter Journey": It is the mid-1950's, and your assigned college roommate (if you're male) or your weekend b...
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Critical Essay by The Atlantic Monthly
Winter Journey is something like the first trip to Italy that lies at its center: you may think you know the language, and you certainly know that many, many oth...
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Critical Essay by Susan Wood
By all odds, Winter Journey should not be a particularly successful novel. Its plot and characters are, on the surface anyway, fairly standard, if not trite. It's t...
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Critical Essay by The New Yorker
["Winter Journey"] takes its title from the Schubert song cycle "Die Winterreise" and recounts the adventures, largely emotional, of an Ame...
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Critical Essay by Gary F. Waller
Winter Journey casts the mind, perhaps inevitably, back to Hawthorne's The Marble Faun: two Americans, seeking respite from masochistic relationships, and encou...
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