Calliope's friendship with a classmate and her sense of identity are compromised by the adolescent discovery that she is a hermaphrodite, a situation with roots in her grandparents' desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s. By the author of The Virgin
A collection of 50 of Christopher Ricks's reviews from the TLS, London Review of Books, New York Review of Books, New York Times Book Review, and other publications, REVIEWERY contains Ricks's opinions on such major literary figures as Seamus Heaney, V.S. Naipaul, Ezra Pound, Leslie Fiedler, Stanley ...
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A best-seller in France, this biography by an authority on Proust draws on recently discovered material to tell the story of perhaps the greatest novelist of all time. Tadie illuminates Proust's life and also his art in a definitive critical reading that finds fascinating correspondences between the ...
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