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Their solitary thoughts form separate sections that are strung together like so many pieces of reality, doing away with chapters or divisions based primarily on action. Drabble succeeds with this difficult method, and she needn't intrude, as she occasionally does, to inform the reader of what she is doing...
But even for seasoned Drabble lovers, her seventh and latest novel, The Realms of Gold, is extraordinary--as extraordinary as its heroine, Frances Wingate. Frances is a famous archaeologist in her mid-thirties, triumphant in everything she turns to, whether it be discovering ancient cities, delivering lectures, raising kids or...
She would almost be too much, if it weren't for Drabble's skill in creating characters that are so genuine that their eccentricities become not only acceptable but absorbing. Their reality has little to do with external characteristics such as Frances' impressive credentials; for the most part, action accedes...
What distinguishes The Realms of Gold from Drabble's earlier works is that she exposes the minds of characters other than her heroine. But she does so as part of her exploration of Frances Wingate, for Frances "would like to know where she began and the family ended." She returns...
FRANCES MUST JUSTIFY them in order to survive and "prove the possibilities of the future." Her nephew Stephen, confronted by the same problem, can't see his way to such a justification and denies the possibility of the future by killing himself. The other characters in the book--two cousins...