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Copious gift certificates to the movie theatres, diners, and mom-and-pop shops in the relevant college town would be welcomed by any high-school senior.
5. There's a presumption of copious gift giving and fawning attention (make sure those cards get out!). 6.
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"His thirst for attention and reassurance has somehow compromised his copious gifts," she writes.
The reader can only hope that Mr. Haslett deploys his copious gifts as a writer more fully in his next novel or collection of stories.
But like her disappointing second novel, "The Autograph Man," "NW" and its paper-doll-like characters do a disservice to this hugely talented author and her copious gifts.
The reader finishes this book convinced that most of Ms. Dew's copious gifts for capturing the intricacies of family life have not survived the time-machine trip into the past.
For the better part of the book, Ms. Byatt inexplicably renounces her copious gifts as a writer to construct a dry, tendentious and thoroughly irritating narrative designed to hammer home a single philosophical point, namely the familiar notion that historical truth often eludes the human rage for order.
As for Mr. Updike's collections of nonfiction (including "Hugging the Shore," "Odd Jobs" and "Due Considerations"), they not only showcased his copious gifts as a critic — as a celebrant of other artists' work and a sometimes acerbic literary anthropologist — but they also attested to his compulsion to enclose between the covers of a book every snippet of his work.
It is the stories memorializing the ordinary mysteries of love and doubt and perseverance that best showcase Mr. Updike's copious gifts as a writer: his keen, journalistic eye for the way people go about their daily lives; his musical ear for the hidden melodies of small-town and suburban life; his instinctive understanding of the contradictory yearnings of the human heart.
Unlike the true gems in this volume — the title story, along with "Fiction," a story about a woman who glimpses her own life in a work of fiction written by the daughter of a onetime romantic rival — they fail to make full use of their author's remarkable and copious gifts.
New York Times: "'NW' and its paper-doll-like characters do a disservice to this hugely talented author and her copious gifts".
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