Wednesday, August 4 2010
‘Flint and Silver’ Is a Swashbuckling Prequel to Treasure Island
John Drake keeps the pace fast and the action steady. We're never more than a few pages away from a confrontation of some kind, whether a sea battle or face-to-face struggle or daring escape.
Tuesday, December 9 2008
The Widows of Eastwick by John Updike
The novel has enormous vitality and the main characters are memorable, but the moral ambiguity, really moral obliviousness, is disappointing.
