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Ms. Centrello said: "You have to find the right fit, and ultimately it's the author's decision.
But if the subtlety and authority of Landfall are products of its author's decision to utilise her own biography, it is hard to see that decision as a cause for complaint.
The author's decision hardly to mention the war at all gives his account the aspect of one hand clapping, and undermines its ability to convince.
The real Achilles' heel of this book is tone — one made disastrously worse by the author's decision to metamorphose an ancient story of heroes into a modern tale of hormones.
The author's decision follows an 18-day campaign of protests in Tamil Nadu about his novel Madhorubagan (One Part Woman), first published in 2010 and in English in 2013.
The author's decision to describe the process is a questionable one — a book's great unknown can leave the strongest impression on a reader — but he executes as precisely as the surgeons who perform the unwinding.
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But a book that presents situations and challenges you to second-guess the author's decisions -- that's a useful book.
Shattuck's claim that in Tadie's edition "the author's decisions are now virtually overruled" is a bit misleading, since for the latter parts of the novel those decisions are very obscure.
In the first case, the author has chosen the degree to which a reader is uncertain, and has determined the wider parameters within which questions can be asked; in the latter, a different curiosity emerges, for instance with biography being crudely used to analyse the work, or rejected material being used to clarify the author's decisions.
The author's decisions are based on conceptual and methodological arguments, no peer-reviewed science is provided to underpin the argumentation and categorization.
Despite all the juicy secrets that such books let their readers in on, nothing shapes a work of non- fiction more profoundly than the author's decisions about what to put in and what to leave out.
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CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com