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More biting reviews say it's yet another in the recent rash of single-girl-in-the-city novels, just a "wobbly attempt to follow in Bridget Jones's Manolo Blahniks" (Yahlin Chan, Newsweek ). (Click here to read an interview with the author.)
Critics call Bloom "a master entertainer" who has applied his formidable skills to the noble project of a general reader's introduction to Shakespeare (David Gates and Yahlin Chang, Newsweek ). (Click here to buy the book.)
Others say Wurtzel's notoriety as "someone so bent on self-destruction" makes it "redundant to bash" the book (Yahlin Chang, Newsweek ). A few find Bitch less smug and more authentic than Prozac Nation . (Click here to read "Culturebox" on craziness as a career strategy.)
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."
"[F]ast and funny with real moments of poignancy" (Yahlin Chang, Newsweek ) and "one of those rare occasions when a highly touted book fulfills the excitement" ( Publishers Weekly ). Some critics detect shades of the single-gal dippiness of Bridget Jones's Diary , but most say that this is much more witty and sophisticated.
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