Title: prime example of the tyranny of creative writing classes
Product review: Amazing how much wordiness we've learned to put up with - no, we even demand it, as proof of good writing. We therefore learn in Chapter One of Guterson's new book that a character steadies a "cup of lemon tea" (lemon, note - lest you think it might have milk in it)"on the dashboard so that it shed a crescent of steam against the windshield." Very nice, good observation - but so what? The writer includes it for the usual creative writing class reason: because he can.
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