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March 8, 1917 – January 29, 2003
Leslie Aaron Fiedler was an American literary critic known for his interest in mythography and his championing of genre fiction. His work also involved applying psychological theories to American literature. He was, in practical terms, one of the early postmodernist critics, engaging with literature generally from around 1970. His influential scholarship explored deeper symbolic layers and psychological motivations within American literary works, offering readers fresh perspectives and defining an early postmodern approach.
- 1987
- 1961
But it would be unfair to the reader to reveal what happens when a gang of professional crooks gets wind of the scheme and moves to muscle in on this bettors' dream of a long-odds situation. Worked out with all the meticulous detail, terror, and suspense of a nightmare, the tale is, on one level, comparable to a Graham Greene thriller; on another, it explores a group of people, their relationships fears, and loves. For as Leslie A. Fiedler says in his introduction, "John Hawkes.. . makes terror rather than love the center of his work, knowing all the while, of course, that there can be no terror without the hope for love and love's defeat . . . ."
