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“... and thought that, yes, I would do well to build my house upon a rock, whatever that meant.’ Frederic Tuten, also an American writer, shares Wolff’s obsession with absent fathers, though his concern with memory and personal identity is comparatively abstract and philosophical. Tallien: A Brief Romance, Tuten’s ...”

“... concept’ novel, for its premise can be stated even more succinctly: ‘Tintin grows up.’ In Tuten’s hands (and with the personal blessing, we are told, of his friend and mentor Hergé), the cherub-faced, boundlessly intrepid teenager achieves a miraculous release from his forty-year pre-adolescence and is made to undergo a swift, bruising rite of ...”