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FICTION: Final Payments, Mary Gordon ∙ Picture Palace, Paul Theroux ∙ Stories, Doris Lessing The Left-Handed Woman, Peter Handke ∙ The New Oxford Book of English Light Verse, edited by Kingsley Amis ∙ The World According to Garp, John Irving
FICTION: Airships, Barry Hannah Final Payments, Mary Gordon Mortal Friends, James Carroll Picture Palace, Paul Theroux The New Oxford Book of English Light Verse, edited by Kingsley Amis The World According to Garp, John Irving
...Paul Theroux The World According to Garp, John Irving
...Theroux clearly has old-fashioned literary aspirations. Picture Palace may be one of his weakest novels, but it is not likely to keep him from moving up steadily on the outside. If writers often seem to be in a cultural horse race, Theroux gives every indication of being its Man O'Letters...
Vladimir Nabokov embraced a similar theme to some wondrous effects in his novel Ada. But the author is no Nabokov, though he shares the master's taste for drollery and erudition. Like Nabokov, he is also something of an outsider. Born in Massachusetts, Theroux has lived abroad most of his adult life. His present home is London. Picture Palace is his tenth novel; The Great Railway Bazaar, an account of the author's international train travels, was a bestseller in 1975, and his reviews and critieism appear with regularity in the U.S. and England...