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Article: BROWN TOOK ON TOO MUCH WITH `AUDREY HEPBURN'.(LIFE & LEISURE)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- April 16, 1996
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Byline: MICHAEL HARRINGTON
All novels come with implicit promises; a good novelist can carry through with them, even if he is not on top of all facets of the game. The basics seem simple: story, character, description.
Story comes first. Truly great novelists, like Saul Bellow or Oscar Hijuelos, can add depth and insight to the mix; but even good novelists, like Gus Lee or Stephen King, are masters of storytelling, keeping a reader turning the pages, though the characters may not be much more than central casting cutouts.
Alan Brown, in his first novel, ``Audrey Hepburn's Neck,'' shows himself to be a fine descriptive writer, but his ...