Reviewers of this novel were drawn to comment on its diction. Eleanor Birne
in the London Review of Books regretted the amount of consumerist detail, but called it Enright's best novel so far, and praised...
Literary responses
Toni Morrison
Elena Seymenliyska
, reviewing the book in paperback, felt that Morrison's tolerance of the December-May love-relationship vitiated an otherwise admirable book.
Seymenliyska, Elena. “Fiction”. The Guardian, 7 Aug. 2004, p. Review 20.
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Eleanor Birne
went further, judging this novel as a serious falling-off from earlier...
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Texts
Birne, Eleanor. “At Dulwich Picture Gallery”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 17, p. 37.
Birne, Eleanor. “At the Royal Academy”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 11, pp. 24-5.
Birne, Eleanor. “At Turner Contemporary”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 14, p. 27.
Birne, Eleanor. “Drip-Feed”. London Review of Books, p. 23.
Birne, Eleanor. “What Family Does to You”. London Review of Books, Vol.