Reviews for The mask in place

The average rating for The mask in place based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2021-01-04 00:00:00 Thomas Connolly The Life of Fiction has as its subjects Walter Abish, Russell Banks, Donald Barthelme, Jonathan Baumbach, Steve Katz, Clarence Major, Ishmael Reed, Gilbert Sorrentino, Michael Stephens, Ronald Sukenick, Hunter S. Thompson, and Kurt Vonnegut--and inwardly (outwardly) resembles with its penandink graphics (courtesy Roy R. Behrens) Hugh Kenner's The Counterfeiters, and textually-formally that pamphlet, jack green's fire the bastards! A glance tells me the thing includes transcriptions of tape-recorded interviews; "capsule" reviews of representative works; letters; fragments; quotations; and other such things approximating perhaps the choral odes of the Attic Greeks as they have arrived or are arriving at the present or near it upon the tattered papyri: something of an ideogrammic approach, evaluating and reevaluating and making (and making of) meaning by way of juxtaposition and certain conceptual as well as formal adjacencies. (hi-res, with stalking Hawk on horizon)

Review # 2 was written on 2014-07-20 00:00:00 Don Alvis Unfortunately, the edition I have (Yale University Medical Historical Library, 1987) doesn't contain the Appendices that I wanted to consult. As a consequence I was forced to use the digital copy that can be found in googlebooks.