Sue Grafton | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 28 pages of analysis & critique of Sue Grafton.

Sue Grafton | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 28 pages of analysis & critique of Sue Grafton.
This section contains 7,634 words
(approx. 26 pages at 300 words per page)
Buy the Critical Essay by Peter J. Rabinowitz

SOURCE: Rabinowitz, Peter J. “‘Reader, I Blew Him Away’: Convention and Transgression in Sue Grafton.” In Famous Last Words: Changes in Gender and Narrative Closure, edited by Allison Booth, pp. 326-44. Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1993.

In the following essay, Rabinowitz examines “A” Is for Alibi, its entry into the world of hard-boiled detective fiction, and its role as a feminist text.

The sex was very good and very strong but the fact remained that I was still in the middle of an investigation and he still had not been crossed off my list. … I couldn't really afford to take the chance. Unless, of course, I was just rationalizing my own inclination to hold back. … Was I really just sidestepping intimacy? Did I long to relegate him to the role of “possible suspect” in order to justify my own reluctance to take a risk?

—Sue Grafton, “A...

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