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...players supporting Richard vary widely in quality. The Lady Anne of Denise Bessette is strident and amateurish. Georgine Hall's Duchess of York is only adequate, but Robin Bartlett's Queen Elizabeth is clear and convincing work...
FICTION: Consenting Adults or the Duchess Will Be Furious, Peter De Vries ∙ Doctor Fischer of Geneva or the Bomb Party, Graham Greene Joshua Then and Now, Mordecai Richler ∙ Rough Strife, Lynne Sharon Schwartz ∙ The Magic Labyrinth, Philip José Farmer ∙ The Second Coming, Walker Percy ∙ The Transit of Venus, Shirley Hazzard
CONSENTING ADULTS, OR THE DUCHESS WILL BE FURIOUS by Peter De Vries; Little, Brown; 221 pages...
Consenting Adults, or the Duchess Will Be Furious is another De Vriesian tumble down that rabbit hole where love and lechery are humorously blurred with a yearning for the Absolute. In short, the novel is a romantic and philosophical farce, a form of entertainment that the author has owned since the publication of such fetching titles as No but I Saw the Movie, Into Your Tent I'll Creep, The Tunnel of Love and Comfort Me with Apples...
NONFICTION: Gladys, Duchess of Marlborough, Hugo Vickers Maybe, Lillian Hellman Philosophy and Public Policy, Sidney Hook ∙The Oak and the Calf, Alexander Solzhenitsyn ∙The Return of Eva Perón, V.S.Naipaul Thirty Seconds, MichaelJ. Arlen Wilderness of Mirrors, David C. Martin