John Sayles | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 2 pages of analysis & critique of John Sayles.

John Sayles | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 2 pages of analysis & critique of John Sayles.
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Among the several literary careers that have started off strongly in the last five or six years, that of John Sayles is unusual and interesting. At a time when the general drift of American prose seems to be through baroque toward rococo, and the drift of narrative from psychopathological melodrama into fable and fantasy, Mr. Sayles is a revivalist of realism, old-time and unabashed.

This declaration could be supported comfortably on the evidence of Mr. Sayles' 1977 novel, "Union Dues." There will be some exceptions to it noted in describing ["The Anarchists' Convention"], a collection of short stories….

The first of the 15 stories, "Home for Wayfarers,"… is a slice-of-life piece, which displays a group of young women temporary office workers in Boston, as arbitrarily assorted as the members of a wartime infantry squad…. It's a display piece for a fine ear and deft control of characters….

Though Mr. Sayles...

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