In these two nouns and a preposition one hears the fading report of Hemingway's ''Men Without Women,'' the 1927 collection that included not only ''The Killers'' but stories about boxingĪnd bullfighting as well. But the title of this new book of three long stories both invokes and marks his difference from one predecessor in particular. his ancestors, assert their immortality most vigorously.''įord's sinewy and distinctively American voice contains the echoing tones of many ancestors.
Eliot meant when he wrote that ''not only the best, but the most individual parts'' of a writer's work ''may be those in which the dead. Original because traditional: in the sense that Ichard Ford is among the most traditional of contemporary American writers and also among the most original.
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