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Green's new novel, Loving , has just received a very favorable review in The New Yorker . Shawn--"with his usual hushed delicacy of speech and manner"--inquires of the novelist whether he could possibly reveal what prompted the creation of such an exquisite work.
The presentation of these items is hushed and museumlike, with just dash of whimsy.
He speaks, says the New York Times ' Stephen Holden, in "a hushed, gee-whiz semi-whisper that's meant to convey profundity but ...
The effect is that of a hushed chapel, and on the altar is this gorgeous riddle of a painting, with its tilted plate of ripe pears, its pendulous eggplants, its great blue-black bedspread draped across the lower half of the painting, and its round, wicker-wound ginger jar, carefully placed in the middle.
Playgrounds are tumultuous, youthful, and physical; churches are hushed, elderly, and spiritual.