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Article: `Cloud Chamber,' `Sees Behind Trees' are first-rate followups for author Dorris // Two for two
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- November 17, 1996
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Michael Dorris laughs about the lengthy gap between his acclaimed
first novel, A Yellow Raft in Blue Water (1987), and his second,
which is due to hit bookstores next month.
It's not that he hasn't been busy in the interim. Dorris has
published kids' books, essays, short stories and nonfiction.
"I guess my philosophy," he jokes, "was to keep doing `firsts' .
. . first novel, first children's book, first essays. That way I'd
always be `promising.' "
He smiles. "When you finally do something a second time, then
you've failed your promise. I finally ran out of things to do
first."
Always tough to pigeonhole, Dorris remains one of the
best-known - and most market-conscious - writers on the ...