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...BALCONY (256 pp.)-David Stacton-London House & Maxwell...
Because the modern world tends to monotheism, the reign (circa 1375-1358 B.C.) of Pharaoh Ikhnaton is usually described in comparative-religion courses as a brief but glorious false dawn of theological enlightenment. Novelist Stacton will have none of this. In an astringent tale that examines men's motives and man's fate as closely-and coldly-as any historical novel in recent years, he presents his own view of the matter...