Mythic Elements
Stephen Bann, 30 December 1982
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
by William Kotzwinkle, based on a screenplay by Melissa Mathison.
Arthur Barker, 246 pp., £6.95, November 1982,0 213 16848 0 Show More
by William Kotzwinkle, based on a screenplay by Melissa Mathison.
Arthur Barker, 246 pp., £6.95, November 1982,
Tales of Afghanistan
by Amina Shah.
Octagon Press, 128 pp., £6.50, November 1982,0 900860 94 4 Show More
by Amina Shah.
Octagon Press, 128 pp., £6.50, November 1982,
The Masque of St Eadmundsburg
by Humphrey Morrison.
Blond and Briggs, 228 pp., £7.95, October 1982,0 85634 127 4 Show More
by Humphrey Morrison.
Blond and Briggs, 228 pp., £7.95, October 1982,
Collected Stories: Vol. III
by Sean O’Faolain.
Constable, 422 pp., £9.95, November 1982,0 09 463920 5 Show More
by Sean O’Faolain.
Constable, 422 pp., £9.95, November 1982,
Work Suspended and Other Stories
by Evelyn Waugh.
Penguin, 318 pp., £2.75, November 1982,0 14 006518 0 Show More
by Evelyn Waugh.
Penguin, 318 pp., £2.75, November 1982,
“... In order to envisage the curious achievement of Emma Tennant’s Queen of Stones, you must first imagine that Virginia Woolf has rewritten Lord of the Flies. Interior monologues and painfully acute perceptions of a seaside landscape combine to colour in what is essentially a tale of a group of girls wrecked on a desert island. The fact that the desert island is just off the coast of Dorset, and has been isolated by an exceptionally heavy fog, is quite immaterial ... ”
