To hell with the lyrics
Peter Campbell, 25 March 1993
The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell
edited by Stephanie Terenzio.
Oxford, 325 pp., £35, April 1993,0 19 507700 8 Show More
edited by Stephanie Terenzio.
Oxford, 325 pp., £35, April 1993,
“... In her essay ‘Good Boys and Dead Girls’ Mary Gordon identifies the ‘American innocent’. She tracks him – young, restless and bad news for women – through the novels of Faulkner, Dreiser and Updike. ‘All that matters is that his heart must be pure, and he must move forward to the quest which for so many male American writers is the most crucial one: the search for the unfettered self ... ”
