Diane Williams.
Review of Contemporary Fiction, The, September, 2003 by Sims, Laura
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Reading contemporary American fiction, one may assume that great innovators such as Donald Barthelme, Laura Riding, and Gertrude Stein, among others, have made a negligible impact on the form, which suffers undeniably from inertia. There persists the trend of telling "straight" stories, complete with richly drawn, psychologically complex characters, detailed landscapes, and plots that are neatly, often predictably, into epiphany, then denouement.
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