It's an engaging and incisive study that finally rescues its often scorned subject from sentiment and mimsy.
This was followed by a short, incisive, study of Henrik Ibsen (1999) and a major study, Dickens and the Popular Radical Imagination (2007).
Bazzana, the author of an incisive study of Glenn Gould, follows up with the extraordinary story of a pianist much less famous but even more eccentric, Ervin Nyiregyházi.
In 1998, she published a superb first book, "Hunger: A Novella and Stories," a taut, incisive study of Chinese immigrants in America and their almost wordless struggle to adapt to a new life.
'BLOOD AND GIFTS' J. T. Rogers's incisive study of the roots of the American involvement in Afghanistan was as dramatically engaging as it was rooted in the complex history of the region.
Mr. Schreiber's Barry is an incisive study in a subject that has since become the stuff of endless analysis: the pathology of fame, of what happens to someone who sees himself reflected and distorted in the eyes (or in this case, ears) of multitudes.
This elegant, incisive study makes the case for Lincoln's political genius by examining his relationship with three of his opponents for the Republican nomination in 1860: Senator William H. Seward of New York (who became Lincoln's secretary of state), Gov. Salmon P. Chase of Ohio (who became secretary of the Treasury) and Missouri's elder statesman, Edward Bates (who became attorney general).
Jamie Clark, FWS director from 1997 to 2001, says the "thoughtful and incisive" study should help the agency shape its efforts, which she thinks should still include multispecies planning and critical habitat designation.
Valerian V. Dolja, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University Cordley Hall 2082, Corvallis, OR This incisive study from Aravind's shop uses cutting-edge bioinformatics analyses to add yet another colorful piece to a jigsaw puzzle of the early life origins and evolution.
"In a series of incisive character studies, Drabble questions how we escape the 'humiliations' of old age," wrote Hannah Beckerman in the Observer.
