Mark Harris' Criticism Of Doctorow's Book
In his criticism, Mark Harris describes a regret; a sorrow, almost,
for this once-great author who has written a book he feels is almost
pitiful in it's lack of clarity and style. He says the book “is a failed
work of a serious man.” In his view, Doctorow, once an excellent author,
has evidently tried to expand his style by almost imitating authors of the
past such as Pynchon and Burroughs, but has succeeded only in clouding his
paper, and confusing the reader with sentances that flow on without style
or punctuation, and scenes which serve only to feed the reader wit ....
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