CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, June 22nd, 2002
Alice Walker was once on a panel of writers conducted by Tom LeClair, who asked the panel why no women wrote novels like Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. Walker's answer was, "Why would they want to?" Nevertheless, The Temple of My Familiar has much of the ambition of Pynchon's prodigious text and questions similar aspects of contemporary Western culture. Walker herself, on the jacket cover, calls the novel "a romance of the last 500,000 years," and if that reads a bit like a publisher's sound byte, it also has some truth to it. By the novel's end, the long-separated incarnations of spirits...
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