· Read "Perfect Reader A Novel" by Maggie Pouncey available from Rakuten Kobo. In this enchanting debut novel, Maggie Pouncey brings to life the unforgettable Flora Dempsey, the headstrong and quick- Brand: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. PERFECT READER is Maggie Pouncey's first novel. I hope it will be the first of many from her; I enjoyed this one enormously. It's very much a character-driven novel, moved along by psychological and intellectual introspection, not mainly by events and actions/5(37). Perfect Reader by Maggie Pouncey In this enchanting debut novel, Maggie Pouncey brings to life the unforgettable Flora Dempsey, the headstrong and quick-witted only child of Lewis Dempsey, a beloved former college president and famous literary critic in the league of Harold Bloom.
In this enchanting debut novel, Maggie Pouncey brings to life the unforgettable Flora Dempsey, the headstrong and quick-witted only child of Lewis Dempsey, a beloved former college president and famous literary critic in the league of Harold Bloom. At the news of her father's death, Flora quits her. Perfect Reader by Maggie Pouncey In a recent essay in The New Republic, Jed Perl mused about the "flood of posthumous publications" pouring forth from writers like Nabokov, Ellison and Henry Roth. Maggie Pouncey is the author of Perfect Reader ( avg rating, ratings, reviews, published ) and A Fort on the Moon ( avg rating, 37 ra.
Maggie Pouncey. Maggie Pouncey was born in New York City and grew up there and in Amherst, Massachusetts, and New Haven, Connecticut. She received her B.A. and M.F.A. from Columbia University and has taught writing at Columbia, the Bard Prison Initiative, and the New York City nonprofit Girls Write Now. In Perfect Reader, an engaging first novel by Maggie Pouncey ’00CC, ’08SOA, Flora Dempsey confronts these questions after her father dies of a heart attack. An only child in her 20s, she finds herself the custodian of her father’s legacy, his material possessions, and even his dog, Larks — like it or not. Perfect Reader by Maggie Pouncey In a recent essay in The New Republic, Jed Perl mused about the “flood of posthumous publications” pouring forth from writers like Nabokov, Ellison and Henry Roth.
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