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Critical Essay by John Mellors
The Storyteller lurches along like a pubcrawler, tanking up here, spewing up there, and eventually falling flat on his face. The style does not help. Sillitoe is a garru...
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Critical Essay by Alan Brownjohn
Sillitoe's later work has often explored [the contradiction] of a developed, indignant, and compassionate social sense [combined] with a strong urge to push out...
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Critical Essay by Mary Cantwell
Mr. Sillitoe's idea [in "The Storyteller"] is promising, but his explication is ponderous. For an artist to write about the anguish of being an art...
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Critical Essay by Julian Moynahan
The Storyteller is something of a disappointment. Its main drawback is that it is much too tightly wound upon the armature of its narrative premise. Purporting to be ...
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