Darryl Pinckney
Författare till The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick
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Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction (1990) — Bidragsgivare — 274 exemplar
Know the Past, Find the Future: The New York Public Library at 100 (2011) — Bidragsgivare — 116 exemplar
Growing Up Ethnic in America: Contemporary Fiction About Learning to Be American (1999) — Bidragsgivare — 102 exemplar
Who's Writing This? Notations on the Authorial I, with Self-Portraits {not Antæus} (1995) — Bidragsgivare — 72 exemplar
The Company They Kept, Volume Two: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships (2011) — Bidragsgivare — 21 exemplar
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- Vedertaget namn
- Pinckney, Darryl
- Födelsedag
- 1953
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
- Bostadsorter
- New York, New York, USA
Oxfordshire, England, UK
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA - Utbildning
- Columbia University
- Yrken
- novelist
playwright
essayist - Relationer
- Fenton, James (partner)
- Priser och utmärkelser
- Whiting Writers' Award (1986)
Christopher Lightfoot Walker Award (2024)
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- Verk
- 10
- Även av
- 14
- Medlemmar
- 674
- Popularitet
- #37,468
- Betyg
- 4.0
- Recensioner
- 13
- ISBN
- 28
- Språk
- 1
The structure seemed unnecessarily complex and I didn't feel it added anything to the mood or meaning. I found almost all the passages dealing with Jed's time in Chicago, and especially his childhood and adolescence, convoluted and uninteresting. However, I can see how some readers might relate to those passages if they had similar experiences. Most of the allusions left me cold, and there were many of them.
If Pinckney publishes another queer-themed novel, I'll probably read it, because his talent as a writer is apparent even amongst the flaws in this novel. However, I wouldn't recommend this novel.… (mer)