February 24, 2006
The Ravening Desire She Felt for Him Was Superseded by a Tenderness that Was Almost Maternal
The only parts of the Economist magazine I read closely are the economic, financial, and emerging-market indicator tables on the last three pages, and their Books and Arts section. Why Books and Arts, you ask? For bits like this:
Mr. McInerney’s prose is plain to the point of dumpy. Tear a stray page from this novel [The Good Life], and it could pass for the kind of over-obvious, middle-brow romantic fiction that gives women’s writing a bad name.
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February 25th, 2006 at 7:08 am
Ouch! That was almost as hurtful as hitting a stop.