Adrián Astur Álvarez reviewed Fire sermon by Wright Morris
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5 stars
It is a crime that Wright Morris isn't read more widely. There is so much wisdom in this novel about a boy coming of age as an older generation gives way to a new one. It is infused with a gentle optimism about that passage I find hard to conceive of in 2020. There has been no grace in our current transition.
Not only does Morris have something to say about the dynamics of aging and growing up, he has plenty to teach about writing. The prose in this novel may be unassuming but it is so well crafted that the mechanisms of his narrative are practically invisible. Morris was a prolific and outstanding American writer.
It is a crime that Wright Morris isn't read more widely. There is so much wisdom in this novel about a boy coming of age as an older generation gives way to a new one. It is infused with a gentle optimism about that passage I find hard to conceive of in 2020. There has been no grace in our current transition.
Not only does Morris have something to say about the dynamics of aging and growing up, he has plenty to teach about writing. The prose in this novel may be unassuming but it is so well crafted that the mechanisms of his narrative are practically invisible. Morris was a prolific and outstanding American writer.