Book Review: Emily, Alone by Stewart O'Nan

I think Stewart O'Nan must reinvent himself more than any other modern US author. Many, if not most, writers give a case and they get pretty closely within a certain range. Philip Roth likes to write near the lives of Jewish upper middle class men. Jodi Picoult picks an "emergence" and so uses multiple narrators to write about it. William Faulkner liked to chronicle lives in his fictional Yoknapatawpha County.

Book Review: Emily, Alone by Stewart O'Nan

I think Stewart O'Nan must reinvent himself more than any other modern US author. Many, if not most, writers give a case and they get pretty closely within a certain range. Philip Roth likes to write near the lives of Jewish upper middle class men. Jodi Picoult picks an "emergence" and so uses multiple narrators to write about it. William Faulkner liked to chronicle lives in his fictional Yoknapatawpha County.