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By the 1920s, the derricks of the Standard, Union, and Shell oil companies had sprouted all over the Los Angeles basin.
[The address of a life insurance company in Los Angeles.
This latest installment of the "Penguin Lives" series is well received, even though it trails Richard Ellman's definitive 900-page Joyce tome, which was deemed "probably this century's best biography of a writer" (David Kippen, the San Francisco Chronicle ). Undaunted, novelist O'Brien attempts something entirely different: She gives 179 pages of "hardheaded hagiography in which she spends a lot of time knocking Joyce around" (Robert Sullivan, the New York Times Book Review ). It's notable not for its wide net, but for its precision, economy, and insight: "a first-rate appraisal of a master … a model of pristine brevity" (Robert Taylor, the Boston Globe ). One complaint: The book contains an "impressive number of inaccuracies of a factual nature," such as misidentifying the poet laureate of Victorian Ireland and misquoting critic Walter Pater (Thomas Flannagan, the Los Angeles Times ). (This Joyce site has essays, links, and message boards on the author.)
Others, though, bash Pfitzner's work as a pale imitation of Wagner, "massively bloated [and] endlessly meandering," and say its American performance would have been "[b]etter never, perhaps, than late" (Martin Bernheimer, the Los Angeles Times ).
The Los Angeles Times attributed the crash to a piloting error by Kennedy, but a tidal wave of eulogies (including this one from the Washington Post ) blamed a curse on the Kennedy clan.
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