Ann Beattie is a national treasure, and her work just gets more wonderful every time she sets words into relation to each other, and starts rattling the cage of this language we are, so many of us, trapped by. I've never read a single line of hers that did not produce pleasure, and the confidence that I was in the thrall of an absolute master.
Richard Bausch replied on Mon, 12/22/2008 - 08:56pm
Ann Beattie is a national treasure, and her work just gets more wonderful every time she sets words into relation to each other, and starts rattling the cage of this language we are, so many of us, trapped by. I've never read a single line of hers that did not produce pleasure, and the confidence that I was in the thrall of an absolute master.