Literary Significance & Criticism
"Though Carter Beats the Devil seems uncertain of its focus at times, it is an enormously assured first novel. That in itself is no small feat of legerdemain." Janet Maslin, Books of the Times, New York Times, August 27, 2001. the full review
"Serves up sparkling vignettes like that one in droves, and in the end Glen David Gold makes good on the promise of his title." – Washington Post Book World
"Carter Beats the Devil is a big, mischievous, intelligent read – nice to see a bit of magic in fiction again" A L Kennedy, The Observer (Books of the Year)
Read more about this topic: Carter Beats The Devil
Famous quotes containing the words literary, significance and/or criticism:
“His style is eminently colloquial, and no wonder it is strange to meet with in a book. It is not literary or classical; it has not the music of poetry, nor the pomp of philosophy, but the rhythms and cadences of conversation endlessly repeated.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Of what significance the light of day, if it is not the reflection of an inward dawn?—to what purpose is the veil of night withdrawn, if the morning reveals nothing to the soul? It is merely garish and glaring.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism.... Drunk with self-love, criticism has hugely overestimated the centrality of language to western culture. It has failed to see the electrifying sign language of images.”
—Camille Paglia (b. 1947)