Nobody is surprised that wo... by Peter Straub, an American Writer

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“Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa.”

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Peter Straub

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Name: Peter Straub

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: Mar 2, 1943

Profession: Writer

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The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth.

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My first real breakthrough collided with the last months of Callaghan's Labour government, which had every intention of enjoying my success as much as I did.

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I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do.

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On gym days, I don't get to my desk until 4 in the afternoon, and everything except bedtime and the appointment with the liquid narcotic is pushed back a bit.

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Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the events in question.

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