Book summaryIn Richard Ford's first novel, two men, each on his own separate quest, meet on an island in the Mississippi, and violence erupts. Media reviews"The South--dadgummit--has struck again, marring what might have been an excellent first novel. 'A Piece of My Heart' shows obvious promise, but it also exhibits all the characteristic vices of Southern fiction. Those vices, in my view, are so numerous that there would not be space to list them all, but it won't hurt to tick off a few, starting with portentiousness....If the vices this novel shares with its many little Southern cousins could be squeezed into one word, the word would be neo-Faulknerism....It reminds us of the Faulkner whose passion for rhetoric so often swamped his instinct for syntax....One would hope that, in Mr. Ford's case, these vices won't prove incurable. His minor characters are vividly drawn, and his ear is first-rate. If he can weed his garden of the weeds and cockleburrs of his tradition, it might prove very fertile." |
A Piece of My Heartby Ford, Richard
Book description: Unknown: Vintage. Trade PaperBack. 0394729145 A good reading copy only. Book has tanning or browning due to normal aging process. 1985 Vintage Trade PaperBack . Good. 1985.
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