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The Rags of Time
Product Details
ISBN: 9780670021321
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 238
Publish Date: 10/15/09
Publisher: Viking Pr
Item Number: PEUSA002132
The fourth and final novel in Maureen Howard's acclaimed "seasons" series, THE RAGS OF TIME follows an aging writer living on Central Park (as Howard herself does) ruminating on her life, the fictional characters she has created and lived with, and the figures from history who have affected her beliefs and philosophy.
Evaluating her personal history in light of her successful writing career, an aging Manhattan author considers her family and relationships, the influences of three historical figures, and the future prospects of her fictional characters. By the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of The Facts of Life.
Evaluating her personal history in light of her successful writing career, an aging Manhattan author considers her family and relationships, the influences of three historical figures, and the future prospects of her fictional characters. By the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of The Facts of Life.
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Evaluating her personal history in light of her successful writing career, an aging Manhattan author considers her family and relationships, the influences of three historical figures, and the future prospects of her fictional characters. By the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of The Facts of Life.
Note 2:
Evaluating her personal history in light of her successful writing career, an aging Manhattan author considers her family and relationships, the influences of three historical figures, and the future prospects of her fictional characters. By the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of The Facts of Life.
Review 1:
"THE RAGS OF TIME...comes described as a novel, but is more a kind of late, meandering overture, part meditation, part postscript, part appendix. Like autumn, it flares and fades, rages and dissembles, not wanting to give itself over to its inevitable end....[R]ather than a sustained narrative...this novel is a time capsule of manners, fascinations, prejudices and blindnesses, a kind of last gasp of the Upper West Side intelligentsia..."
11/15/2009
Review 2:
"Slyly riffing on the meanings of 'fall' and slipping pieces of autobiography into a rag-rug-like design, Howard creates a novel of exquisite synthesis, rare nuance, and deep conscience." (starred review)
09/01/2009
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