Richard Powers
Reviews
and Writings:
Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance


 


HarperCollins Edition

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  • [Review of Three Farmers]. Kirkus Review 53 (June 15, 1985): 552. Starred review.
  • [Review of Three Farmers]. Publisher's Weekly 227 (June 28, 1985): 60.
  • [Review of Three Farmers]. Booklist 81 (August, 1985): 1632.
  • Swindell, Larry. "Whither Autumn?" Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Mention of Three Farmers in fall roundup.
  • Taylor, Robert. "'Farmers' an Admirable Misfire." Boston Globe (August 14, 1985).
  • Cryer, Dan. "A First Novel Inspired By a 1914 Photograph." Newsday (August 15, 1985). Also syndicated in The Courier-Journal (Louisville) (August 25, 1985), the Sunday Peninsula Herald (August 25, 1985), the Arizona Republic (Phoenix) (August 31, 1985), the Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) (September 8, 1985): 5E.
  • Cheuse, Alan. "Two First-Time Novelists Explore Vivid Landscapes." Los Angeles Herald Examiner (August 18, 1985) Review of 3F, along with T.R. Pearson's A Short History of a Small Place.
  • Stange, Eric. "Image of the Past." Boston Herald (August 18, 1985) Review of 3F.
  • Marcus, James. "A 1914 Photo Inspires a Rich First Novel." Philadelphia Inquirer (August 25, 1985) Review of 3F.
  • Stange, Eric. "Image of the Past." Boston Herald (August 18, 1985): 29.
  • Portales, Marco. "[Review of Three Farmers on Their Way To a Dance]." New York Times Book Review (September 1, 1985): 14. Rev of 3f.
  • Swindell, Larry. "Our Calamitous Twentieth Century." Fort Worth Star-Telegram (September 1, 1985): BOOKS 1.
  • Dooley, Sally. "Powers Shines Bright Light With Ambitious First Novel." Beaumont Enterprise (TX). (September 1, 1985).
  • Dunlap, John R. "3 Farmers Saunter Into Immortality." Washington Times (September 8, 1985).
  • Murray, Tim. "On the Trail of a Century." Hackensack Record.
  • Johnson, Cynthia. [Review of Three Farmers]. Library Journal 110 (September 15, 1985): 94.
  • Osowski, Edward J. "Dancing to the 'Guns of August'." Houston Post (September 15, 1985) Review of 3F.
  • Dickey, Rhonda. "Human Drama in Three Chapters." Orlando Sentinel (September 15, 1985): F8.
  • Craig, Paul. "Three Young Men Stroll Toward War." Sacramento Bee (September 15, 1985).
  • Reed, Ronald. "On the Way to the Twentieth Century." Dallas Morning News (September 15, 1985): 10C.
  • Baker, Deborah. [Review of Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance.] Conjunctions, 255-256.
  • Roe, Jon. "Of Movie Stars and Farmer's Tales." Witchita Downtown News. 26.
  • Chapman, Diane. "Freeze Frame." The New Times (September 18-24, 1985): 43.
  • Hoffman, Carl. "Three Stories of Men Overwhelmed by Modern Life." Baltimore Sun (September 22, 1985) Review of 3F, along with Hob Broun's Inner Tube and Gerald Seymour's Field of Blood.
  • Kart, Larry. "'3 Farmers': Fiction From Photography." Chicago Tribune (September 22, 1985) Review of 3F.
  • Holmesley, Sterling. "Novelist's Debut is Powerful One." Sunday Express News (San Antonio). (September 22, 1985).
  • Ritchie, Marilou C. "Triple Novel Woven With Finely Spun Web." The Elkhart Truth (September 28, 1985).
  • Hunt, Alexandra. [Review of Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance.] Bestsellers (October, 1985).
  • Barron, John. "On Their Way to a Dance." Monthly Detroit (November, 1985): 241.
  • Pascoe, Judith. "Ingenuity and Grace." Virginian-Pilot (November 24, 1985) Review of 3F.
  • [Review of Three Farmers]. Choice 23 (December, 1985): 606.
  • Hurt, James. "Three Farmers, Three Stories, and You." Illinois Times (December 5-11, 1985): 5.  Also appeared in The Reader (Chicago) as "Reading: Optical Allusions."
  • Link, Tom. "Walking On the 'Way' to the 20th Century." LA Life, Daily News (December 29, 1985): 30.
  • Notes On Current Books. Virginia Quarterly Review 62.2 (Spring, 1986): 57. Review of Three Farmers.
  • Kearns, George. "Revolutionary Women and Others." Hudson Review 39.1 (Spring, 1986): 121-134. Multiple book review, including Three Farmers.
  • Morris, Gregory. "[Review of Three Farmers on Their Way To a Dance]." Prairie Schooner 60.1 (Spring, 1986): 108. Rev of 3f.
  • Berkley, Miriam. "Imaginative Powers." American Photographer (April, 1986): 15.
  • Vincent, Emily. "Young Men in a Picture." Houston Chronicle (April 6, 1986): 26.
  • Lewis, David. "[Review of Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance]." Ottawa Citizen (May 9, 1987) Rev. of 3F.
  • Parini, Jay. "Writers Reading." Horizon 30.8 (October, 1987): 63. Includes comments by Ann Beattie on Three Farmers.
  • Anonymous. [Review of Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance]. The Bookseller (February 12, 1988).
  • Nye, Robert. "The Worst of All Worlds." The Guardian (March 11, 1988).
  • Clute, John. "Photo-Finish." Times Literary Supplement 4432 (March 11, 1988-March 17, 1988): 276. Rev of 3f.
  • Spurling, John. "Designer Rust." The Observer (London). (March 13, 1988).
  • Parrinder, Patrick. "Verbing a Noun." London Review of Books 10.6 (March 17, 1988): 17-18. Rev of 3f.
  • Goedkoop, Hans. "De Apocalyptische Twintigste Eeuw." Haagse Post (June 18, 1988): 61-63.
  • Howard, Maureen. "Semi-Samizdat and Other Matters." Yale Review 77.2 (Winter, 1988): 243-258. Multiple book review, including Three Farmers.
  • Otterspeer, Willem. "Wie Leeft is God." NRC Handelsblad (July 12, 1991). Cultureel Supplement 8.
  • Zeeman, Michaël. "Het Smeltpunt van de Tijd." De Volkskrant (October 11, 1991): Kunst 4.
  • Scott, Grant F. "Three Farmers, Biography, and the Research Paper." The CEA Critic 55.3 (Spring, 1993-Summer, 1993): 69-78. Rev of 3f.
  • Swindell, Larry. "Powers Who? Well, He Wrote the Best Novel of the 1980s." Fort Worth Star-Telegram (June 9, 1996): D6.
  • Dawes, Greg. "The Storm of Progress: Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance". Review of Contemporary Fiction. 18.3 (Fall 1998): 42-50.

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By David G. Dodd

Copyright 1997-2002 David Dodd.
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