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Featured Author: Hilary Mantel
Featured Author: Hilary Mantel
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(1993)
“As a work of fiction, ‘A Place of Greater Safety’ is unquestionably a success. . . . Still, there is much in Ms. Mantel’s very long novel that also feels forced. It is not so easy, after all, for a 20th-century
author to become an 18th-century revolutionary, and on occasion she writes dialogue that reads like a parody of a historical novel.”
(1996)
“The pleasures of the novel . . . are many. . . . with all its brilliance, its sharpness and its clear-eyed wit, ‘An Experiment in Love’ is a haunting book.”
reviewed by Francine Prose
(1997)
“. . . two witty, disturbing and memorable novels . . . Mantel writes with a jaunty, wry panache and a scientific precision that can capture a character or a mood and offer it up, impaled and squirming, like a bug on a
pin.”
(September 12, 1993)
“Yalom . . . is right to insist that the women of the era have their own story and that it is not the same as the male version, but she is right only up to a point. . . . it is odd of her to claim that the
memoirs of the women of the period ‘have never been fully appreciated for their historical, literary and moral worth.'”
(January 14, 1996)
“For its first two-thirds, this sharp, sad book seems one of Ms. Brookner’s best. But when the unsatisfactory marriage is described . . . the narrative sinks into a chaise longue and expires.
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