Lesley Chow
Lesley Chow reviews 'Mad Men: Dream Come True TV' edited by Gary R. Edgerton
Lesley Chow
Thursday, 24 March 2011
In the last decade, several television shows have received acclaim by being likened to a great novel. The Wire has often been compared with Dickens, several critics have made a case for ER as a contemporary Middlemarch, and now Mad Men is being praised for its version of a Richard Yates protagonist. Its leading man, Don Draper, is a character straight out of Yates: a 1960s adman with reserves of mystique and despair.
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April 2011, no. 330