Wallace Stegner called the novel "a hell of a portrait. " It's also a hell of a heartbreak for anyone who has ever failed at imaging the inner life of their own mother.

华莱士·史德格奈把这部小说称为“出色的肖像画”，对于那些无法想象自己母亲内心世界的人而言，这也是一部出色的心理描写书。

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Published in 2008, "Legend of a Suicide" was immediately compared with the work of Wallace Stegner and Cormac McCarthy, earlier literary mythologists of the American frontier.

2008年，《一个自杀的传说》一经出版就被拿来与美国边境的早期神话作家华莱士·斯泰格纳以及科马克·麦卡锡的作品相提并论。

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Catharines, Ontario, last fall took her seventh tour (to Santa Fe to discuss Wallace Stegner) and just last month spent five days in Savannah, Georgia exploring the short stories of Flannery O'Connor.

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