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New Worlds of Violence: Cultures and Conquests in the Early American Southeast (review)

New Worlds of Violence: Cultures and Conquests in the Early American Southeast (review) West Virginia History, N.S. 6, No.2, Fall 2012 work as a means of supporting a writing career that isn't supporting itself. On the other side of that coin, those who teach creative writing, in the absence of a personal or professional compulsion to produce and publish regularly, may be led to reflect on their own motivations and methods. Kroll's belief, as a teacher, that quantity leads to quality, and his faith, as a marketer, that any writing that sells is good writing, may be as off-putting to some of Saunders's readers as they were to many of Kroll's colleagues and contemporaries. Whatever may be said of his writing, Harry Harrison Kroll was a realist in his personal and professional lives, with all the self-absorption and instinct for self-preservation that the label implies. As resurrected by Richard Saunders, Kroll himself appears to be more flawed, more complex, and more memorable than any character he was capable of creating. The single flaw of any significance in Never Been Rich is the excessive length of some chapters. Readers who lack the time to read chapters three and four (seventy-one and sixty-three pages respectively) at one sitting may flounder in the crossing. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies West Virginia University Press

New Worlds of Violence: Cultures and Conquests in the Early American Southeast (review)

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West Virginia History, N.S. 6, No.2, Fall 2012 work as a means of supporting a writing career that isn't supporting itself. On the other side of that coin, those who teach creative writing, in the absence of a personal or professional compulsion to produce and publish regularly, may be led to reflect on their own motivations and methods. Kroll's belief, as a teacher, that quantity leads to quality, and his faith, as a marketer, that any writing that sells is good writing, may be as off-putting to some of Saunders's readers as they were to many of Kroll's colleagues and contemporaries. Whatever may be said of his writing, Harry Harrison Kroll was a realist in his personal and professional lives, with all the self-absorption and instinct for self-preservation that the label implies. As resurrected by Richard Saunders, Kroll himself appears to be more flawed, more complex, and more memorable than any character he was capable of creating. The single flaw of any significance in Never Been Rich is the excessive length of some chapters. Readers who lack the time to read chapters three and four (seventy-one and sixty-three pages respectively) at one sitting may flounder in the crossing.

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West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies – West Virginia University Press

Published: Nov 7, 2012

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