[ilds] fat and florid novels

[Marc Piel]

Too many people think that becoming mature is 
leaving behind childhood, enthusiasm, spontaniety, 
passion; they are wrong, so what other reactions 
can you expect. Live is beautiful when it burns 
like a fire. When you burn slow saving fuel, it is 
not worth living and then you miss (don't 
understand) everything.
Marc

slighcl wrote:

> See below for another nod-and-shrink acknowledgment of Durrell.  It 
> really is a curious pattern to trace.
> 
> Query:  What is wrong with "fat and florid" novels? 
> 
> Second Query: Must young writers really write to the norm and to the 
> standard of "lean and chaste"? 
> 
> Surely we readers are more catholic in taste than that. 
> 
> Perhaps our Northern Ministry can provide us with additional information.
> 
> Charles
> 
> ***
> 
> http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2007-08-08-new-voices_N.htm
> 
>> New voices: Kevin Patterson
>> By Bob Minzesheimer, USA TODAY
>> Here's the scoop on Consumption author Kevin Patterson:
>>
>> The book
>>
>> •Consumption(Doubleday/Talese, $25)
>>
>> •What it's about: A debut novel about the clash of cultures in the 
>> Canadian Arctic featuring an Inuit woman who had tuberculosis as a 
>> child and a doctor from New York who is out to escape his past.
>>
>> •Why it's notable: Critics raved when it was first published in Canada 
>> last year, noting Patterson's firsthand experiences as a doctor in the 
>> Arctic.
>>
>> •Memorable line: "Storms are sex. They exist alongside and are 
>> indifferent to words and description and dissection."
>>
>> The author
>>
>> •Quick bio: Patterson, 42, grew up in Manitoba and attended medical 
>> school under the sponsorship of the Canadian Army.
>>
>> •Quote: "Medicine and writing are natural companions. … They both 
>> revolve around narrative — interpreting and teasing apart stories."
>>
>> •Fun fact: Patterson lived on his boat until he sailed into 
>> Salt-spring Island, "a firred and rocky outcrop" between Vancouver and 
>> the Canadian mainland he now calls home.
>>
>> •Literary influences: "Mark Helprin and Lawrence Durrell, both of whom 
>> write fat and florid novels that appall me now but opened my eyes to 
>> the power of fiction when I was in my 20s."
>>
>> •Next up: Becalm, a sequel to his 1999 travel memoir, The Water in 
>> Between, about sailing from British Columbia to Tahiti.
>>
> 
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> Charles L. Sligh
> Department of English
> Wake Forest University
> slighcl at wfu.edu
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