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It is Widmerpool's wife Pamela, an elegant harpie who was visited upon him like a judgment in Powell's previous volume, Books Do Furnish a Room (1971), who now moves to center stage. As promiscuous and frigid as ever, she lends a macabre sexual touch to dreadful...
Her nameless narrator is Canadian, like herself, and a bit younger-in her late 20s. A commercial artist making a perfunctory living by illustrating children's books, she has left her husband and her own child. "A divorce," she observes with her dreadful gift for understatement, "is like an...
That may not be enough to please the new Europe's more ardent advocates. But given the Continent's past -its dreadful wars, its fierce rivalries -the arrival of "the European idea" is unquestionably one of the signal events of the decade.
Other visions were apparently acquired from emotional events and trying circumstances in his life. His father was stern and autocratic. When young Ernst was only 14, his pet cockatoo died. The same day, almost to the hour, his favorite younger sister was born. Thereafter, Ernst's subconscious apparently kept...
The Weldon manner, however, is basically deceptive and only partly because Housewife Weldon is also a novelist and a well-known TV writer. The author, for example, has supreme literary confidence. Not a whit daunted by the inevitable comparison between her novel and Mary McCarthy's The Group, she...