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Economist Deirdre McCloskey warns against hollow triumphs like, "Why did the man drink the motor oil?
The biography of the legendary Belgian-French king of pulp fiction (1903-1989), who wrote more than 400 novels and bedded even more women (he estimated 10,000), is deemed masterful, "absorbing," and "definitive" (Deirdre Bair, the New York Times Book Review ). Simenon wins praise for its defense of Simenon's oeuvre , often dismissed as hackery, and for its candid treatment of his misogyny and anti-Semitism.
Stanley Fish, formerly of Duke University's English department and now dean of liberal arts and sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago, has lured two more high-profile scholars to join his ranks--the transsexual economist Deirdre McCloskey from the University of Iowa, and Gerald Graff, a professor of English and education at the University of Chicago.
The prose in this "literary violation" reads "like a parody of Hemingway" (Deirdre Donahue, USA Today ). It "reflects a marvelous writer's disastrous loss of talent" (Kenneth S. Lynn, National Review ); a "sad, bloated, inert so-called book" (L.S.
The expectations for McCourt's follow-up to the best-selling Angela's Ashes were high, and critics are uniformly disappointed: It "lacks the drama, the magic, the gentleness, the lilt of the first book" (Deirdre Donahue, USA Today ). They're quick to point out that 'Tis , which picks up McCourt's life at age 19, once he has left Ireland for America, is not a bad book, it's just not as good as the first.
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