Word: retold
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FICTION: Consenting Adults or The Duchess Will Be Furious, Peter De Vries ∙ Italian Folktales, selected and retold by halo Calvino ∙ Joshua Then and Now, Mordecai Richler ∙ Loon Lake, E.L. Doctorow ∙ Rough Strife, Lynne Sharon Schwartz ∙ The Middle Ground, Margaret Drabble The Second Coming, Walker Percy
ITALIAN FOLKTALES Selected and Retold by Italo Calvino Translated by George Martin; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; 763 pages...
...that Shikasta unveiled Lessing's new cosmology; three vast galactic empires (two benign, one evil) and mysterious universal harmonies that, when slightly untuned, wrecked life on Shikasta. a small planet suspiciously similar to earth. The result of this disturbance was the dark underside of human history, which Lessing retold as much in sorrow as in anger. Now she has traveled past Zone Six to some nicer neighborhoods in her mental landscape. If Shikasta was an admonition, its successor is an epithalamium...