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...Student publications also made it clear that Harvard men and Radcliffe women were separate and only dubiously equal...
...measure of Seth's extraordinary skill and versatility--his first novel, The Golden Gate, was a tale of San Francisco written entirely in elegant verse; A Suitable Boy was the opposite, a marvelous, sprawling, and gripping tale of Indian family life--that one wonders if his latest book, An Equal Music (Broadway Books; 381 pages; $25), is simply his little joke. Perhaps he is saying to the Rushdies of the world, You want to see soap opera? I'll show you soap opera...
...Equal Music is almost unbearably sudsy, a huge disappointment for the legions of A Suitable Boy fans waiting to see what magic Seth could possibly spin next. Crammed with intriguing detail about the world of classical music, it is the story of Michael, a violinist in a string quartet, who is reunited with his long-lost love, Julia. But the writing is more than a little groan inducing: "She kisses me. I hold her in that soundless room, far from daylight and the traffic of Bayswater and all the webs of the world. She holds me as if she could...
Blake insists that he is focusing on both singles and doubles with equal intensity...
Blake insists that he is focusing on both singles and doubles with equal intensity...