From Publishers Weekly
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." Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Anais Vol. 13
"In Marguerite Young, Our Darling, editor Miriam Fuchs has assembled a tri-part collection of seventeen "Tributes and Recollections," eleven critical essays, and two recorded conversations. The appreciations and reminiscences by friends, former writing students, and writers like Amy Clampitt, Anne Tyler, and John J. Stephan, enhance the portrait of this extraordinary woman; the essays bring together for the first time scholarly considerations of the work; and the interviews provide Marguerite Young's direct responses to questions asked about her work and her life."

Choice 11-94
"After a decade of minimalist fiction, Young might find a new readership for her work with this collection serving as enticement."

Book Description
tributes, memoirs & critical essays

FROM THE PUBLISHER

With Miss MacIntosh, My Darling (1965) Marguerite Young established herself as one of the greatest writers of our time, and yet she has been slow to attract critical attention. Miriam Fuchs remedies that defect with the first book-length study of her work, a gathering of personal reminiscences and appreciative essays that explore the breadth of Young's achievement. Part 1 consists of tributes and recollections by such writers as Anne Tyler, Amy Clampitt, Stanley Kunitz, Anna Balakian, among other friends and students. Part 2 offers a dozen critical essays on her work, from Angel in the Forest to Young's forthcoming biography of Eugene Debs, with special attention to the wonders of Miss MacIntosh, My Darling. Part 3 consists of two interviews with Young. Also included are a dozen photos, most published here for the first time, and a chronology by Martha J. Sattler.

FROM THE CRITICS

Publishers Weekly