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...past 15 years, Britain's A.N. Wilson has built a formidable reputation as a prolific man of letters -- 11 novels, three biographies, essays, journalism. He is brilliant, brisk, funny and morally exacting. Daughters of Albion is the last volume of a trilogy produced, with the author's characteristic vigor, a book a year...
DAUGHTERS OF ALBION...
...like Julian Ramsay, the diffident narrator of all three books. In the first, Incline Our Hearts, Ramsay is a young man full of bright promise. In the second, A Bottle in the Smoke, reality, in the form of diminished hopes and a doomed marriage, sets in. By Daughters of Albion he is contemplating a book on -- guess who? -- the Lampitts...
...little like The Wizard of Oz played backward. British journalist Tony Parker gets caught up in a brainstorm with his editor and is blown from batty Albion into the middle of humdrum Kansas. There, in Dorothy's native land, he finds not a winding yellow brick road but a grid of blacktop highways crossing one another at predictable right angles. Instead of tin men and cowardly lions, there is a pride of stolid citizens unashamed of their placid routines and quick with the thank-yous and have-a-nice-days. Wicked witches? Nope, but there is a local drunk...
...ALBION every inch the hip poet, carries his role with both energy and aplomb. His presentation of the haughty Oscar Wilde aesthete with Kerouac funkiness lets him get away with singing "You're only hip enough/If you understand the stuff/That Allen Ginsberg writes" to Sullivan's classical music...