Woodrell writes about violence and dark deeds in compact, musical prose.
Woodrell writes about violence and dark deeds better than almost anyone in America today, in compact, musical prose that doesn't dwell on visceral detail.
September 4, 1882 Würzburg, Germany August 18 , 1961Munich, Germany Leonhard Frank, (born Sept. 4, 1882, Würzburg, Ger. died Aug. 18, 1961, Munich, W.Ger.), German Expressionist novelist and playwright who used sensationalism and a compact and austere prose to dramatize a favourite theme the destruction of the individual spirit by bourgeois society.
In his compact but profound prose, Johnson digs into the corruption found in the hearts of men, but a dismissive treatment of women and race narrows the outlook.
They suffer slightly through being juxtaposed with her more rapturous material, but even here there are masterful moments, hand-brake turn transitions, and she rattles out revelations in stories so elegant and compact they could be prose poems.
It's far worse than the compact, natural and always lucid prose of Hayward and Harari.
Her prose is engaging, precise, compact: "It was July 1975, but we were cold.
Wood's prose is a model of compact energy.
One critic found the prose to be as "hard and compact as glacier ice" and another that it "gives us sharply observed small moments inscribed with crystalline clarity".
But not only does Sullivan avoid condescension; he admires his new friends, listens to them, and quietly compacts an enormous amount of acquired information into his prose.
