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Subject: Modern Novels


Author:
Allie again
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Date Posted: 03:46:13 09/21/04 Tue

Which modern novels are your favourites, whether mainstream or genre?

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Author:
Allie
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Date Posted: 03:49:51 09/21/04 Tue

Apart from those I mentioned under my favourite books, I also love: Harriet Said (Bainbridge); Durable Goods (Berg); A Second Life (Bolger); And Never Said A Word (Boll); My Antonia (Cather); Papillon (Charriere); The Diary of a Provincial Lady (Delafield); Fasting, Feasting (Desai); The Millstone (Drabble); Rebecca & Frenchman's Creek (Du Maurier); Castle Rackrent (Edgeworth); The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald); Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (Flagg); Appointment With Yesterday (Fremlin); Cold Comfort Farm (Gibbons); Shane (Schafer), and many others there is no room to mention.

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Bob Williams
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Date Posted: 08:01:00 09/21/04 Tue

My favorites - any books by James Joyce or Jane Austen or Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Searching for Caleb by Anne Tyler; Leaving Small's Hotel by Eric Kraft; The Waves by Virginia Woolf; Little Big by John Crowley; Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett; and Omeros by Derek Walcott. I am also very taken by a little known book by A.B. West - Wakenight Emporium.

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Allie
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Date Posted: 08:34:17 09/21/04 Tue

I know Eric Kraft is one of your favourite writers, Bob, but I'd never heard of him till you mentioned him. Maybe you could tell us a little about him and his work.

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Bob Williams
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Date Posted: 10:31:52 09/21/04 Tue

Eric Kraft is a former teacher and for a time made his living at various odd jobs such as editing school text books and other forms of free lance writing. With one of his early novels he won a prestigiuos award and felt that his career was assured. Not so. The special form of his work has prevented readers from a ready access to a remarkable body of work. Some of the problem is that his work appears to be humorous. It is certainly often funny and never pretentious but is comedy as in high comedy and apparently too rarified for the general reader. It is also a loosely grouped series the umbrella name for which is The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences and Observations of Peter Leroy. Peter is Kraft's alter ego. Thus to become immersed in Peter's world involves a large commitment of reading time. But for those who acquire a taste for him, he is a writer with an unusual vision and startling insights. His very entertaining website is at
http://www.erickraft.com/markdorset/topicalguide/iamheis.html
and contains generous excerpts from his books.

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