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Fiction ChronicleNovember 2002 Suffer the children by Max Watman A review of Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides; The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold; Prague, by Arthur Phillips; Twelve: A Novel, by Nick McDonell; The Little Friend, by Donna Tartt & Summerland, by Michael Chabon. In 1996, Granta published the “Best of Young American Novelists” issue, and this list has been famous ever since. The Twenty under Forty have had varying degrees of success, and everyone thinks that someone was left off, and none of that matters because it was, after all, a silly gimmick to sell magazines. Which it did. Jeffrey Eugenides was on the list, as I was recently reminded when I opened his excellent new novel Middlesex[1] and found myself reading words I had first read in 1996. His excerpt in Granta was from a novel in progress finally published this September. We’ve been waiting a long time. Eugenides’s first novel, The Virgin Suicides, was slim, weird, and beautiful. He wrote it while he worked at the Academy of American Poets, and I like to think that one can tell it was written in the company o ... This article is available to subscribers and for individual purchaseSubscribe to TNC (Print and Online editions) Subscribe to TNC (Online only) This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 21 November 2002, on page 65 Copyright © 2012 The New Criterion | www.newcriterion.com http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/suffer-watman-1881
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