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It conjures up the picture of someone boning up on his “word for the day’ just before attending a cocktail party and then awkwardly trying to steer the conversation in such a way that he can insert a word like paradigm, paragon , or parameter .
for the everyday" (Daniel Mendelson, the New York Review of Books ). The problem is that the mixing of this traditional story with King's trademark bone-chilling horror results in a novel that straddles the two genres somewhat awkwardly.
Yes, it's "awkwardly executed and tedious," but Williams "does some of his best and most honest work here"(Jack Mathews, the New York Daily News ) as a man who brings hope to his Jewish ghetto by pretending to have good news from a hidden radio.
Building on the huge success of his series paintings of the 1890s--the cathedrals and haystacks (now awkwardly renamed "grainstacks") and rows of poplars--Monet could afford to paint for himself alone.
Like any written work, this one could stand some improving ( urbicolous `urban domiciled' could, less awkwardly have been `city-dwelling').