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To those familiar with Dalkey Archive Books, any remark I make would be excessive. Log of the S.S. and Mrs. Unguentine (does its title tell you anything?), is structured as a log ... of a fantastical voyage. What else? Substantive observations on marital solitude written by a wildly intelligent, quirky, comic, ultimately sombering voice. Stanley Crawford is not for everyone. A writer's writer? Maybe a phrase too used. My reading tastes are eclectic, but my shelf would be less exciting if it did not have writers outside the mainstream. By all means read the classics. But don't omit writers whose narrative is not subordinate to the voice that enlivens it. Read the titles of Dalkey Archive Books for a different trip. Read about the Unguentines ... a word that actually refers to something, but is intrinsically funny.
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Log of the S.S. the Mrs Unguentine (American Literature) by Stanley Crawford
sandra stone, March 20, 2010
To those familiar with Dalkey Archive Books, any remark I make would be excessive. Log of the S.S. and Mrs. Unguentine (does its title tell you anything?), is structured as a log ... of a fantastical voyage. What else? Substantive observations on marital solitude written by a wildly intelligent, quirky, comic, ultimately sombering voice. Stanley Crawford is not for everyone. A writer's writer? Maybe a phrase too used. My reading tastes are eclectic, but my shelf would be less exciting if it did not have writers outside the mainstream. By all means read the classics. But don't omit writers whose narrative is not subordinate to the voice that enlivens it. Read the titles of Dalkey Archive Books for a different trip. Read about the Unguentines ... a word that actually refers to something, but is intrinsically funny.