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Twain, Mark: Mark Twain: A Life.(Brief article)(Book review)

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From: Biography
Date: 20060622
Author:Benfy, Christopher

Twain, Mark Mark Twain: A Life. Ron Powers. New York: Scribner, 2006. 723 pp. 25 [pounds sterling].

"To ... get a sharper sense of the man, Powers has turned to Twain's private journals and letters." "For a biographer scornful of what he calls 'psychobiographical analysis, Powers ascribes a great deal of significance to Twain's attitude towards his parents." "The verbal delicacy that distinguishes Twain's best descriptive writing is conspicuously absent from Powers's own prose."

Christopher Benfy. TLS, Mar. 17, 2006: 4-5.

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