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5.0 out of 5 stars
A book to be re-read.
How is it that a book can be read several times and never lose its luster? Could it be that there is something "timeless" within the covers of this book? Well I think so, and there are damn few of us who could write anything close to such a painful rant on the loss of one's wife, the mother of the love of one's life. If you knew Gordon Lish you would know he is NOT a...
Published on December 7, 2004 by Rogue Literary Society
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Lish in the kitchen, picking up crumbs.
Characteristically blurring the line between fiction and autobiography, the proper and the profane, Lish has created yet another beautiful and disturbing rant. Of all the expressions of grief, megalomania is at least the most creative, and here Lish lets the verbiage fly to the point of creating a new poetics, a language where the discerning reader (unfazed by Lish's...
Published on February 20, 1997
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A book to be re-read.,
This review is from: Epigraph (Lish, Gordon) (Hardcover)
How is it that a book can be read several times and never lose its luster? Could it be that there is something "timeless" within the covers of this book? Well I think so, and there are damn few of us who could write anything close to such a painful rant on the loss of one's wife, the mother of the love of one's life. If you knew Gordon Lish you would know he is NOT a sexist. He LOVES women! He HONORS women! That is why he gets so many of them. But it is sad when you know the years they spent with this sickness and disease called Lou Gehrig's. And it is heartbreaking to know the suffering this family went through together. And just the fact that this Gordon Lish had the heart to write this novel gives prudence to the claim of his greatness. Joyce knew, Eliot knew, Jack B. Yeats knew. Time for some of us to find out.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Lish in the kitchen, picking up crumbs.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Epigraph (Lish, Gordon) (Hardcover)
Characteristically blurring the line between fiction and autobiography, the proper and the profane, Lish has created yet another beautiful and disturbing rant. Of all the expressions of grief, megalomania is at least the most creative, and here Lish lets the verbiage fly to the point of creating a new poetics, a language where the discerning reader (unfazed by Lish's blatant sexism) might find empathy for a thoroughly unlikeable narrator. "Epigraph" is a challenging "novella" that, while not one of Lish's best works, adds to his reputation as a postmodern busboy, and casts crumbs of brilliance on the dirty floor of literature's kitchen
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2.0 out of 5 stars
The ego has landed,
By A Customer
This review is from: Epigraph (Lish, Gordon) (Hardcover)
The ego has landed! This novel began with an idea that,finally, wouldn't expand beyond the author's idea that he is gordon --Gordon! -- and we should all pant at every word. It's unfortunate because Lish is a superb writer of short fiction. We have 155 pages, with about 50% of the left hand pages blank and many of the right facing pages are less than half filled. Finally, the throbbing ego here makes the blank pages the best part of the story. John Herrmann <herrmann@libby.org>
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Epigraph (Lish, Gordon) by Gordon Lish (Hardcover - October 16, 1996)
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