In the time that remains, before the fall semester's responsibilities remove almost all free time, I'd to bring to your attention a new book by Dave Eggers. I haven't read it but the NY Times book review makes it sound very interesting. A brief quote:
|Eggers, the boy wonder of good intentions, has given us 21st-century |Dickensian storytelling - which is to say, a character-driven potboiler |with a point. But here's the real trick: He does it without any writerly |triple-lutzes or winks of postmodern irony. ... He does it the old-fashioned |way: with show-not-tell prose, in the most restrained of voices. For more see: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/books/review/Egan-t.html?emc=eta1&pagewanted=all -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected])
