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Penguin Reading Guide: Freddy and Fredericka
echoes deepen sound. Appreciation is often based on a comparison of patterns, and allusions can be islands of suggestion that strengthen whatever line you are laying out or following. They also can make clearer the underlayment of meaning in a book. Y...
Penguin Reading Guide: The Secret Life of Bees
? Once, after I gave a reading of the scene where T. Ray makes Lily kneel on grits, someone in the audience asked if my father had ever made me kneel on grits. She couldn't imagine, she said, anyone making that up! I explained that not only had I never knelt on gri...
Penguin Reading Guide: My Year of Meats
point of view is interesting on several levels, not the least of which is the effect of extreme subjectivity on notions of absolute or objective truth. Of course, this is a topic that Jane discusses quite overtly in the novel, and...
Penguin Reading Guide: The 6th Lamentation
appearance and reality, The 6th Lamentation is both a fast-paced thriller and a moving meditation on truth, history, and the human predicament. ABOUT WILLIAM BRODRICK William Brodrick, in a career change that reverses Father Anselm's, was an Augustinian friar before lea...
Penguin Reading Guide: Herzog
his past, how do these sections function in the novel as a whole? How do they assist Herzog during his time of crisis? In his portrait of Dr. Edvig and in the comic "gun" scene with Herzog's father, Bellow parodies psychiatry and Freudian ideas on...
Penguin Reading Guide: Should You Leave?
personhood as indivisible from relationship. Each patient in Should You Leave? can be viewed through the lens of one or more of these theories. Iris, a self-made and flamboyant editor, is confronted with a cruel betrayal by Randall, whom she feels to be her ideal...
Penguin Reading Guide: The Testament of Gideon Mack
Gideon is in that place too. It is a very human locale and a very awkward one for a minister of religion. Q. Why did you decide to end the novel with Harry Caithness’s interviews with the characters who knew Gideon? A. Partly this is b...
Penguin Reading Guide: Author, Author
based, historical novel about real people, ultimately elegiac in mood. All my other novels are fictional, or fictionalize certain experiences of my own life, and all deal with contemporary life, often comically or satirically. However, there is some continuity (there alwa...
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