The Adventures of Mao on the Long March [Paperback]

Frederic Tuten (Author)

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Although LJ's reviewer found the book "too cerebral to be effective," he nonetheless praised Tuten for being able to "reduce Mao to human dimensions, to present his loves, his doubts, and his fears." In addition, the author "writes well and is knowledgeable" (LJ 12/1/71).
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About the Author

Frederic Tuten directed the Graduate Program in Creative Writing at the City College of New York for 15 years, where he continues to give seminars. He has mentored some of America's most impressive creative writers, including Oscar Hijuelos and Walter Mosley. Besides fiction he has also written for film, and his reviews and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Artforum, Art in America, and Vogue. He is a Guggenheim Fellow in Creative Writing, and was awarded a prestigious German DAAD fellowship. He lives in New York City. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 121 pages
• Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd (February 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0714530212
• ISBN-13: 978-0714530215
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,374,701 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Of course it is history: it elegantly fooled Partisan Review, March 25, 2003

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James Drummond (Norman, OK USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Adventures of Mao on the Long March (Paperback)

I read this book in the seventies. Its depiction of Mao was accurate and fascinating as to Mao's almost hallucinatory erudition. Of course it left out his brutal, autocratic side; it Caesarized him. I do not regard this as a flaw. Tuten was not trying to sell Mao or Maoism, but to open a magic door into his complex, vivid world. The interview portion was excellent; it fooled the Partisan review, which was quite miffed when it could not publish it as a true interview. It is a history of a facet of Mao's imagination: he had an amazing capacity to realize what he could imagine. Tuten makes this clear in Western terms, doing us all a service. His writing is imaginative and vital, and when you read the book you cannot imagine being elsewhere.

22 of 53 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This is a play, not a history., August 27, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The Adventures of Mao on the Long March (Paperback)

This is not about CHina, any more than Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" is about Virginia Woolf. For info on Mao and the Long March, see Edgar Snow's "Red Star Over China" or Harrison Salisbury's "The Long March."