Word: stacton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Balcony, by David Stacton. The Pharaoh Ikhnaton's neuroticism was more significant than his monotheism if Author Stacton is to be believed in this astringent, superior historical novel...
...Balcony, by David Stacton. The Pharaoh Ikhnaton's neuroticism was more significant than his monotheism if Author Stacton is to be believed in this astringent, superior historical novel...
...Balcony, by David Stacton. An astringent tale, several notches above the usual historical novel, of Egypt's neurotic Pharaoh Ikhnaton and his attempts to replace the old gods with a new and self-centered religion...
...mystique of power. The ironic Artist Tutmose-whose hauntingly beautiful head of Nefertiti is on view in West Berlin's Dahlem Museum-solves only part of the puzzle when, near the book's end, he concludes that "beyond our own motives, existence has no reason." Perhaps, Stacton seems to be saying, the puzzle of existence constitutes its own reason...
...Balcony is the second of a set of three novels by 34-year-old Author Stacton, an American who was born in Nevada and now travels widely. His first novel, Remember Me, about the mad Ludwig II of Bavaria, was published in England, where it won critical acclaim. Most readers of the current novel will eagerly await the third, to be published in the U.S. later this month. Entitled Segaki, it concerns a 14th century Japanese monk and his search for wisdom...