The sixth novel in 40 years of careful, lapidary production by this elegant Irish writer concerns the passage of a year in an unnamed Irish village, a couple who have returned to it, and a community for which the biggest event of the year is the arrival of a telephone pole.
The sixth novel in 40 years of careful, lapidary production by this elegant Irish writer concerns the passage of a year in an unnamed Irish village, a couple who have returned to it and a community for which the biggest event of the entire year is the arrival of a telephone pole.
But Hughes is a crime writer, concerned with appearances.
By now, many people have concluded that the writer concerned is Julie Myerson.
But it would be wrong to describe Whelan as a writer concerned with historical gossip.
Martin is an uncompromising, serious writer, concerned with both the eternal verities and what matters right now.
The last story described by the writer concerned a bank robber, Allen Ray Lisenbury, who escaped after holding up a bank in Long Beach, Calif.
Kelman is a profoundly political writer, concerned with the way that representing speech or policing speech can be a form of social control.
We exchanged blank looks for an unconscionable time, while others in the queue grew restive, until I recalled that in the course of my talk I'd referred to myself as couple-centric, a writer concerned above all for the conditions, social or psychological, that make love able to flourish or not.
John Barrell has observed acutely (in the LRB of 2 November 2000) that so-called literary biography seems now to have become markedly less 'literary', subordinating or virtually ignoring the work of the writer concerned, except insofar as it can be made to mirror the ups and downs, pleasures, pains and supposed secrets of his or her personal existence.
Elsewhere the author proves highly adept with the "on the one hand/on the other" formula, one of the most valuable tools for a writer concerned with attaining his assigned word count, and says, for example, of "Brave New World": "Many people consider this Huxley's most important work: many others think it is his only work.
