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A Singular View of New York |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: George Garrett |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1988 |
| Size: 2,754 Words, 15,924 Characters |
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THE YEAR OF SILENCE
Madison Smartt Bell
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1987
194 pp., $15.95
It seems that we have now arrived (and perhaps our ground time here will blessedly brief) at a time and a place where youth--in and of itself, or, in the case of some of our very prominent "young" writers, apparent or self-proclaimed youth--is widely considered to be not merely a fragile fact of life, bound to be changed soon enough, come what may by the implacable and grinding attrition of spent time, but rather as a kind of providential virtue that, like the purely and simply genetic accident of outward and visible beauty or, maybe, the fortunate, blind chance of inherited wealth, is worthy of reflexive awe and admiration and of more than ample rewards. So be it. And how else co...
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...jor, writer. But it is already behind him. Reached at the Iowa Writers Workshop, where he is teaching writing this year, Bell cautiously allowed that he is already deep into the process of writing "a long book about the South," something that ought to be worth waiting for. In the meantime, you will wait a long time before you find anything to read as exciting and satisfying as A Year of Silence.
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