This was panned in the Times Literary Supplement by Jane Miller
. She saw it as overwritten, disfigured by the writer's passion for words, their sounds rather than their meanings. Never was a single adjective...
Literary responses
Bessie Head
The creation of this book gave BH
a huge lift. It brought her new friends and supporters in the worlds of publishing and journalism.
Eilersen, Gillian Stead. Bessie Head. Wits University Press.
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Jane Miller
in the Times Literary Supplement found it intelligent...
Literary responses
Jane Gardam
JG
continued to attract prizes in her new genre. This work was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and in 1989 won the Baudelaire Prize in France.
British Council Film and Literature Department, in association with Book Trust. Contemporary Writers in the UK. http://www.contemporarywriters.com.
JG
's father's response to her Booker short-listing...
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Texts
Miller, Jane. “Foggy”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 3506, p. 481.
Miller, Jane. “Piecemeal”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 3506, p. 481.