<ul>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_K._Vaughan">Vaughan, Brian K</a> - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_the_last_man">Y: The Last Man</a> - 7.0</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_West">West, Nathanael</a> - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_of_the_Locust">The Day of the Locust</a> - 7.5</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinran">Xinran</a> - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_Burial">Sky Burial</a> - 6.9</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Yates_(novelist)">Yates, Richard</a> - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Road">Revolutionary Road</a> - 8.6</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Zeltserman">Zeltserman, Dave</a> - The Caretaker of Lorne Field - 7.3</li>
</ul>
There&#39;s a couple of things worth mentioning about these last few letters of the alphabet. X and Z were surprisingly good considering they were &quot;throwaway&quot; letters.
I couldn&#39;t help comparing Revolutionary Road with Rabbit, Run. They had broadly similar themes, in my head. Unhappy couples in the 1950s/60s who live dull lives. I thought Revolutionary Road did this far, far better. I understood the characters. Updike seemed to write off Rabbit&#39;s wife as unexplainable - she was incredibly two-dimensional. Compared with April Wheeler, which was a very sympathetic portrait of a woman trapped in a life she didn&#39;t enjoy.
Anyway, I&#39;ll do a longer wrap-up post this weekend on LIFE-LESSONS and such.

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