A Moustache Too Far
Danny Karlin: Melville goes under, 8 May 2003
Herman Melville: A Biography. Vol. II: 1851-91
by Hershel Parker.
Johns Hopkins, 997 pp., £31, May 2002,0 8018 6892 0 Show More
by Hershel Parker.
Johns Hopkins, 997 pp., £31, May 2002,
“... helplessly, hopelessly entangled in his earthly travail, mired and clogged where he should be swift; our view of him is blurred just where it should be clearest and most vivid. Parker’s tremendous outlay on props, costumes and scenery very nearly results in distracting us altogether from the action of the drama. Melville, the great ... ”