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American writers were either Europeanized, literary wimps like Henry James, or celebrants of the native animalistic spirits, like Mark Twain.
Other prolific writers such as Henry James and Mark Twain usually get their stuff sorted into early period and late period and released in dribbles.
Two of the three stories in this volume concern the midlife crises of womanizers and all three are deemed mediocre knockoffs of Ford's earlier work, littered with characters "not complex enough to hold one's interest" (Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, the New York Times ). Some, however, appreciate Ford's continued explorations of "contemporary manhood and its discontents" (Dan Cryer, Newsday ) and his "sinewy" prose, reminiscent of Twain and Hemingway (Michael Gorra, the New York Times Book Review ). "Nobody now writing looks ...
This would be the real coup: to unite Smiley's cold, corrective realism with the joy--still unmatched--of that increasingly misunderstood writer Mark Twain.
The time between light and dark, twilight , is of the same root as two, twain, twixt , and tween , from Old English twa .