New Stuff: Christina Stead

Reading Jonathen Franzen's essay on this novel in the new York Times I though I'd need to give it a try:

"Even the word “enjoying”: is that the right word? Although its prose ranges from good to fabulously good — is lyrical in the true sense, every observation and description bursting with feeling, meaning, subjectivity — and although its plotting is unobtrusively masterly, the book operates at a pitch of psychological violence that makes “Revolutionary Road” look like “Everybody Loves Raymond.” And, worse yet, can never stop laughing at that violence!"

Complete essay here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/06/books/review/Franzen-t.html