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Michiko Kakutani is dismissive in the New York Times , calling it a "glutinous hodgepodge of a book ...
The hype revs up for McCourt's follow-up to his best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning Angela's Ashes . 'Tis tops all fall preview lists, and now the first review is in: Michiko Kakutani (the New York Times ) says it's "a considerably angrier book than Angela's Ashes . ...
On the upside, the book is a ripsnorting read, and Lewis "has a natural talent for spinning hilarious scenes and uncovering wicked details" (Steven Levy, Newsweek ). As Michiko Kakutani writes in the New York Times , "Lewis uses a sort of Tom Wolfe approach, enlivening his account of complicated financial deals and even more complicated engineering feats with snappy cameo portraits, exclamatory descriptions and lots of subjective judgments."
Banks tells the story from the perspective of Brown's son, who joined his father in his famous 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry--a narrative choice that allows Banks to show "the familial repercussions of living with a visionary and martyr" (Michiko Kakutani, the New York Times ). Some critics complain that Banks sermonizes.
One deems it more of the same old riffing on the underside of society, "calling up as many vile impressions of humanity as possible" (Liesl Schillinger, the Washington Post ), while the other detects a new maturity in Self and labels this "his most disciplined storytelling yet," marked by "a new control and polish (Michiko Kakutani, the New York Times ). Everyone concedes that his writing is masterful; it's just a question of whether he has progressed.
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