A Virtuoso Proves His Versatility with Masterful 'Thousand Autumns'
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It is one of the charming notions of Thomas Pynchon, a writer not generally noted for charming notions, that we are all irresistibly drawn to the culture of the decade of our birth.
Novelist David Mitchell was born in 1969, which saw the publication of John Fowles' "The French Lieutenant's Woman," the huge, deeply romantic best-selling novel that skirted the edges of post-modernism, which was already born and flourishing but then in the process of being widely named and fully mapped-out.See the full content of this document
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A Virtuoso Proves His Versatility with Masterful 'Thousand Autumns'
Mitchell, it seems to me, is the heir of John Fowles more than anyone -- a storyteller of immense, unquenchable and infectiously old-fashioned zest who also happens to be an astonishing virtuoso of narrative structure and language itself. People throw the word "geniu...
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