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When Crack Was King was critically-acclaimed upon its release with positive reviews from publications including the Los Angeles Times [3], The New York Times [4], Kirkus Reviews [5], NPR, Apple Books, [6] Publishers Weekly [7], and The Guardian. [8] The Washington Post named the book a notable new release in a "summer of big books."
The Atlantic noted that the book built on themes from Kushner's previous novels, singling out "failures of self-liberation" as a key theme in her work. [11] Slate and The New Republic were similarly positive, with the former noting that the novel explored "universal" ideas and the latter praising the novel's plot.
Because SparkNotes provides study guides for literature that include chapter summaries, many teachers see the website as a cheating tool. [7] These teachers argue that students can use SparkNotes as a replacement for actually completing reading assignments with the original material, [8] [9] [10] or to cheat during tests using cell phones with Internet access.
Creation is an epic historical fiction novel by Gore Vidal published in 1981. [1] In 2002 he published a restored version, reinstating four chapters that a previous editor had cut and adding a brief foreword explaining what had happened and why he had restored the cut chapters.
[5] Beryl Bainbridge, Richard Adams, Ronald Harwood, and John Bayley also spoke positively of the work, while philosopher Roger Scruton described it as a "brilliant summary of story-telling". [ 6 ] Others have dismissed the book on grounds that Booker is too rigid in fitting works of art to the plot types above.
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The book was reissued in 2015 as How Things Came to Be: Inuit Stories of Creation. [5] She works as an Inuktitut language translator, and has written both non-fiction and short stories about Inuit culture. [6] In 2012, she was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for her writing. [7]
Oryx and Crake is a 2003 novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood.She has described the novel as speculative fiction and adventure romance, rather than pure science fiction, because it does not deal with things "we can't yet do or begin to do", [1] yet goes beyond the amount of realism she associates with the novel form. [2]