Darryl Pinckney
Autor(a) de The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick
About the Author
Image credit: New York State Writers Institute
Obras de Darryl Pinckney
Associated Works
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contribuinte, algumas edições — 917 cópias
Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction (1990) — Contribuinte — 274 cópias
Know the Past, Find the Future: The New York Public Library at 100 (2011) — Contribuinte — 116 cópias
Growing Up Ethnic in America: Contemporary Fiction About Learning to Be American (1999) — Contribuinte — 102 cópias
Who's Writing This? Notations on the Authorial I, with Self-Portraits {not Antæus} (1995) — Contribuinte — 72 cópias
The Company They Kept, Volume Two: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships (2011) — Contribuinte — 21 cópias
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome padrão
- Pinckney, Darryl
- Data de nascimento
- 1953
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
- Locais de residência
- New York, New York, USA
Oxfordshire, England, UK
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA - Educação
- Columbia University
- Ocupação
- novelist
playwright
essayist - Relacionamentos
- Fenton, James (partner)
- Premiações
- Whiting Writers' Award (1986)
Christopher Lightfoot Walker Award (2024)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 10
- Also by
- 14
- Membros
- 674
- Popularidade
- #37,468
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Resenhas
- 13
- ISBNs
- 28
- Idiomas
- 1
The structure seemed unnecessarily complex and I didn't feel it added anything to the mood or meaning. I found almost all the passages dealing with Jed's time in Chicago, and especially his childhood and adolescence, convoluted and uninteresting. However, I can see how some readers might relate to those passages if they had similar experiences. Most of the allusions left me cold, and there were many of them.
If Pinckney publishes another queer-themed novel, I'll probably read it, because his talent as a writer is apparent even amongst the flaws in this novel. However, I wouldn't recommend this novel.… (mais)