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The biography reveals fascinating details about Evans' life and provides a new insight into his art, but critics say it gets weighted down by superfluous material the author would likely have removed had he finished the book, resulting in a somewhat "exasperating" tome (Margaret Loke, the New York Times ). Even worse, the ending, which details Evans' final years and death from drinking, is still in the form of unfinished notes by Mellow.
Even Benjamin Franklin's 1,600 page tome is easily handled.
Most recently, Edley has called America in Black and White , Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom's anti-affirmative-action tome, a "crime against humanity."
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.)
But, by all reports, he was depressed about the prospects for a large tome about American class conflict.
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