The Review of Contemporary Fiction, March 22nd, 1994
Katherine Snodgrass. Univ. of Delaware Press, 1993. 136 pp. $29.50.
Calisher has not received the critical attention she deserves because she writes in a complex, distinctive way. Her sentences are twisted, skewed, ambiguous. The declarative questions itself, pronouns become "ghostly." The style is paradoxically clear and indeterminate. Her new novel, in effect, is an ambitious, subtly detailed meditation on place, language, art, and politics. The plot is not very important in a Calisher novel. Here we have a "European" film director who encounters America. He is aware of his marginality. A...
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