McTeague
Frank Norris' graphic portrayal of the seamy side of survival in turn-of-the-century urban America remains shocking and powerful today -and its conclusion just as harrowing.
Frank Norris' graphic portrayal of the seamy side of survival in turn-of-the-century urban America remains shocking and powerful today -and its conclusion just as harrowing.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780451528919 (0451528913)
Publish date: August 5th 2003
Publisher: Signet Classics
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
I came to Frank Norris' 1899 novel, McTeague, in a very roundabout fashion. I was reading one of the late Kage Baker's Company novels, in which cyborgs rescue and preserve history and nature's treasures for the future. The cyborgs gather to watch the lost eight hour version of Eric von Stroheim's Gr...
Overall this was a very good book. At some points it began annoying me because the author used repetition to demonstrate several characters obsession with money and gold. Once I was able to put that in the background, the story itself was very enjoyable. It also picked up considerably in the second ...
Ugh. I felt like I wasted a lot of time reading this for what I ended up getting out of it. It just kept going, without much really being meaningful or interesting.
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