![]() It makes you feel a bit high, drugged, and fitted with V.R. ![]() Jennifer Egan’s new one, “The Candy House,” is one of these novels. You’ve entered elite head space of one kind or another. Sometimes, though, you pick up a novel and it makes your skin prickle - not necessarily because it’s a great novel qua novel, which you can’t know until the end, but because of the velocity of its microperceptions. I tend to side with Barry Hannah, who said in his Paris Review interview, “You don’t have to be an intellectual to write, you just have to wonder about things and want to know.” God knows the number of Mensa types who can’t write their way out of a paper bag. tests and read a book about how to improve his score, but it remained about the same. to be a good fiction writer? John Cheever worried about his, which was under 110 - too low to qualify him for the Army’s Officer Candidate School during World War II. ![]() THE CANDY HOUSE By Jennifer Egan 334 pages. ![]()
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