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Critics laud Merchant-Ivory's exit from the 19 th century in this adaptation of a semiautobiographical novel by Kaylie Jones (daughter of novelist James Jones).
A group of self-proclaimed humanists--including selfish-gene theorist Richard Dawkins, novelist Kurt Vonnegut, philosopher Isaiah Berlin, and DNA co-discoverer Francis Crick--have come out in defense of cloning human beings.
After two books about sex, novelist Nicholson Baker writes about the inner life of a 9-year-old girl.
In Bloom's case, it was the novelist Philip Roth.
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.)
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