Marguerite Young, Our Darling: Tributes and Essays

Young's experimental prose--journalism, short stories and her 1198-page novel, Miss Macintosh, My Darling --has garnered attention from critics and other writers, while largely ignored by general readers. In this collection gathered to reintroduce her work, Fuchs, director of the English Honors program at the University of Hawaii, assembles a dozen essays on Young's canon and its influence. The critical pieces explore her complex stylistic structures; there are also tributes by Amy Clampitt, Anne Tyler and Stanley Kunitz. In two interviews Young herself defines her work as ``the search for utopias lost and rediscovered.'' (Aug.)