Novellas

Breakfast at Tiffany’s, by Truman Capote

April 29, 2008

As part of the novella challenge, I read Breakfast at Tiffany’s, by Truman Capote this weekend. The novella is quite short, only 85 pages in the version I read. Still, unraveling the intricacies of Holly Golightly would take up many more pages. For a critical analysis go here. Holly is twenty years old. She has [...]

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Cannery Row, by John Steinbeck

April 2, 2008

“Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream. Cannery Row is the gathered and scattered, tin and iron and rust and splintered wood, chipped pavement and weedy lots and junk heaps, sardine canneries of corrugated iron, honky [...]

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The Uncommon Reader, Part II

March 31, 2008

Immediately after finishing The Uncommon Reader I was disappointed. The last few pages were a little strange. However, letting the experience age over the weekend made me realize that the novella was definitely worth the read. As I mentioned in Part I, there are many good reviews out there about this book. Let me just [...]

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