Part one of term paper
In his criticism, Mark Harris describes a regret; a sorrow, almost, for this once-great author who has written a book he feels is almost pitiful in it's lack of clarity and style. He says the book “is a failed work of a serious man.” In his view, Doctorow, once an excellent author, has evidently tried to expand his style by almost imita ...

Part two of term paper
... past and retelling the same story again, through different “main” characters, and says this is the reason the book is uninteresting, saying that “A writer cannot go forward by clinging wholly to his past.” Harris Another reason he says it is uninteresting is because the two main characters, Joe and Warren (which are hard to determine between), are vague and hard to understand. Harris claims that Doctorow's complete abandonment of punctuation and the formal sentance in this book are reminis ...