![]() ![]() She had promoted Frey's book in her all-powerful book club now he had embarrassed her. But because Winfrey never sounds just one note, she turned in an uncanny performance, modulating her aggression with such finesse that she seemed to be the penitent one, and not the one with the whip hand. Just like back in the days when her guests were abusers and sexual deviants, Winfrey came for vengeance - and vengeance on behalf of the poor, the voiceless and the women above all, who get conned and defrauded and violated by men who think they're so bad. Oh, but that book's phony ''hitting bottom'' was nothing compared to the chastening - the emasculation, really - that he received Thursday on ''The Oprah Winfrey Show.'' Sure, Frey was supposed to have been humbled already, brought low by the grievous sins he chronicled in ''A Million Little Pieces,'' his best-selling creative nonfiction memoir novel of drug addiction. ![]() James Frey - the truculent tough guy who used to compare himself to Hemingway - now sat like a boy in detention, gloomily taking his licks from the nation's headmistress until he seemed to whimper. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |