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| | globeandmail.com: Let's hear it for Joy Fielding |
 | | I would go on to teach Fielding's work and study it, eventually making her acquaintance, in spite of innumerable vicious reviews, and feel, as a reformed ultra-reader, qualified to tell you, among other things, that if you read a certain writer until her books disintegrate, this is not a "guilty" but a sheer pleasure. |
 | | Fielding, who changed her name in honour of Henry Fielding, the greatest and sexiest of the 18th-century novelist/parodists, derives her popularity largely through her work as a stylist, as a scholar of language and form. |
 | | Pull one thread of Fielding's long project and watch her strategy unravel: She has been telling us, for almost 30 years, that women's lives are utterly exotic and arcane; that when we are good or bad, we make decisions that social theory has yet to accommodate. |
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