Plots
Stephen Bann, 4 November 1982
The Prince buys the Manor
by Elspeth Huxley.
Chatto, 216 pp., £6.95, October 1982,0 7011 2651 5 Show More
by Elspeth Huxley.
Chatto, 216 pp., £6.95, October 1982,
Faultline
by Sheila OrtizTaylor.
Women’s Press, 120 pp., £2.50, October 1982,0 7043 3900 5 Show More
by Sheila OrtizTaylor.
Women’s Press, 120 pp., £2.50, October 1982,
Scenes from Metropolitan Life
by William Cooper.
Macmillan, 214 pp., £6.95, October 1982,0 333 34203 8 Show More
by William Cooper.
Macmillan, 214 pp., £6.95, October 1982,
Constance, or Solitary Practices
by Lawrence Durrell.
Faber, 394 pp., £7.95, October 1982,0 571 11757 0 Show More
by Lawrence Durrell.
Faber, 394 pp., £7.95, October 1982,
Beware of pity
by Stefan Zweig, translated by Phyllis Blewitt and Trevor Blewitt.
Cape, 354 pp., £7.95, October 1982,0 224 02057 9 Show More
by Stefan Zweig, translated by Phyllis Blewitt and Trevor Blewitt.
Cape, 354 pp., £7.95, October 1982,
“... of the novel does her satire strike a genuinely fresh, anarchistic note. For the American author Sheila OrtizTaylor, the stakes of satire are higher and more carefully calculated. When Mrs Huxley requires a simile to denote the process of gathering information, she selects one from close at hand: Lady Evers is ... ”
