Ozick’s No
John Lanchester, 4 February 1988
The Messiah of Stockholm
by Cynthia Ozick.
Deutsch, 144 pp., £9.95, November 1987,9780233981420 Show More
by Cynthia Ozick.
Deutsch, 144 pp., £9.95, November 1987,
The Birds of the Innocent Wood
by Deirdre Madden.
Faber, 147 pp., £9.95, January 1988,0 571 14880 8 Show More
by Deirdre Madden.
Faber, 147 pp., £9.95, January 1988,
“... influence and identity, to have had the result of suppressing Schulzian effects on Ozick’s part. Deirdre Madden’s novella Hidden Symptoms was singled out for praise by reviewers in these pages and elsewhere when it came out in Faber’s Introduction 9.* Her new novel, The Birds of the Innocent Wood, is as well-managed as the earlier work, and it ... ”