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Check out some of the posts Garrison Keillor - 07:50am Oct 13, 1997 PST (#18 of 87) It's good to see the SISTER CARRIE thread get off to a good rousing start. People snarling, wild opinions flung around, lines drawn in the sand, and the surly introduction from Yours Truly. None of your whispery Bowing And Scraping At The Throne of Lit'rachur for this bunch ... And I am VERY SORRY INDEED if my comments have led someone to put the book back on the shelf: the last third of the book is a long and sustained and heart-breaking account, beautifully rendered, of a man's decline in New York. You will be glad you read that ... Well, enough for this morning. Welcome to the thread. And please don't be thrown off the scent by the tone of my introductory essay. This book is worth reading and discussing. It made a big impression on us English majors of thirty years ago, and rereading it now, though we find the first couple hundred pages slow going, the book will repay your attention. Garrison Keillor - 07:15am Oct 14, 1997 PST (#35 of 87) I must honestly submit ... that at no time was Dreiser ever the alpha male in American lit, and I doubt that he ever got higher than delta or epsilon, not in his lifetime nor since. It seems more accurate to me to say, "How is it that this bastard, who's been so scorned for almost a century, is still so alive to us?" SISTER CARRIE is not a great book, but it has great parts, and I think that the person who is not moved by the fall of Hurstwood and the rise of Carrie -- I wouldn't care to have that person on the jury at my trial, thank you ... | |
