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...ACQUAINTANCE by David Stacton. 185 pages. Putnam...
...month; it is a complex attempt to combine as parallel themes reminiscence of small-town boyhood with Greek mythology. There is almost no critic who has not praised Updike's crystalline style, his mastery of the distilled phrase. Yet amid the praise there is a growing impatience. Novelist Stacton, who admires Updike's "sense of words," summed it up recently: "I wish he could find something important...
...David Stacton, 37, is a Nevadan who wears cowboy boots, is fond of both Zen and bourbon, and is as nearly unknown as it is possible for a writer to be who has written, and received critical praise for, 13 novels (all have been published in England, five in the US.). His books, most of which have historical themes, are masses of epigrams marinated in a stinging mixture of metaphysics and blood. Mostly they resemble themselves, but something similar might have been the result if the Due de la Rochefoucauld had written novels with plots suggested by Jack London. Stacton...
...Dancer in Darkness, by David Stacton. Seventeenth century Playwright John Webster's ill-fated heroine, the Duchess of Malfi, is chillfully done in, this time in silky, horrifying prose...
...Dancer in Darkness, by David Stacton. In this neo-Gothic retelling, an old and bloody tale-best known in John Webster's 16th century play, The Duchess of Malfi-becomes a great horror story...