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Defenders call it a "largely episodic collection of great moments that aren't all causally linked in that comforting way we're used to" (Yahlin Chang, Newsweek ). Tom Wolfe, who attacked the book in the literary magazine Biblio on the basis of its title--without having read a word of the manuscript--draws a stinging retort from Kirn in the latest issue of Tin House , in which he writes a lovely parody of a negative review for his own book: "I consider it my duty as the author of this offensive work, to carry even further Wolfe's condemnation in hopes of neutralizing, from the start, a potentially harmful literary contagion."
"What might have been a one-trauma-after-another chronicle of loss and divorce," says Walter Kirn in the New York Times Book Review , "becomes instead a hard and shining artifact of personal and social upheaval."
Richard Eder writes in the New York Times Book Review that though "Kirn is a frequently sparkling tour guide" through the teen-ager's life, "[w]e get no sense ...
The critics can't say enough about her tight, honed prose: She gets the speech patterns just right ("a stunningly authentic voice," declares Michael Knight in the Wall Street Journal ), she writes "sentences whose specific gravity mysteriously exceeds their size" (Walter Kirn, New York ), and her characters have an "absolute authenticity" (Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, the New York Times ). (Listen to this CBC interview with Proulx.)
Slate's Walter Kirn, however, dissents, condemning Nothing Sacred as self-righteous "phony Hollywood iconoclasm."
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