It's great to be on a list where people recognize the greatness
of Tepper!! I'm currently working on an article on _Women's Country_, and
hope to post the citation to the list if/when I get one.
To respond to Maryelizabeth's post, there's a certain irony in
Tepper condemning horror writers to Hell - since she is herself a horror
writer and a damn good one! She has two novels (sorry can't remember the
titles, they're on the home shelf) under her own name and one published
pseudonymously as E. E. Horlak called _Still Life_. All three of them
left me unable to sleep for quite some time. So it's fitting that she
writes such horrific scenes as those in _Side Show_ and elsewhere, as she
definitely places herself in the text. Just as in _Women's Country_, the
sentiment is clear: we *are* in Hell!!
Edrie Sobstyl
School of Arts and Humanities JO 31
University of Texas at Dallas
P.O. Box 830688 Richardson Tx
75083-0688 USA
(972) 883-2365
On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Maryelizabeth Hart wrote:
> I'm a HUGE Tepper fan. However, did anyone else have problems with her
> total and absolute condemnation of horror writers to Hell? Which she then
> followed with an incredibly horrorific scene in _Sideshow_?
>
> If every author has her ups and downs, _Beauty_ had a little of both. I
> think _A Plague of Angels_ and _Shadow's End_ were good Tepper without
> being great Tepper. However, I was very happy with _Gibbon's Decline and
> Fall_, and would love a discussion on what choice readers feel was made at
> the end. And I think her current book, _The Family Tree_, may end up being
> my favorite.
>
>
> Maryelizabeth
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>
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