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Literary responses | Christina Stead | Anne Duchêne
, too, expressed admiration for this weirdly laborious, gothic story, calling it a sombre panel, a long and painful expressionist essay, with really only three—or two and a half—characters. She reserved her highest... |
Literary responses | Christina Stead | Thirty years after publication, Anne Duchêne
, also in the Times Literary Supplement, recorded her delight in this iridescent comedy. Stead, she suggested, was a kind of dark star among modern novelists—not visible... |
Literary responses | Christina Stead | Anne Duchêne
called this book, on its appearance as a Virago Modern Classic in 1981, dark, demonic, almost unrelievedly ugly, a rancid and claustrophobic criticising of capitalism, and of what it does to human emotions... |
Literary responses | Christina Stead | Initial New York reviewers were unenthusiastic, calling this book thin-blooded or disappointing. Rowley, Hazel. Christina Stead: A Biography. Secker and Warburg, 1995. 391 |
Literary responses | Edith Templeton | Anne Duchêne
in the Times Literary Supplement described the book as mildly amazing, today, in being a high sexual fantasy, postulating female submission to men. Though ultimately trivial, it is spirited, if silly, stuff... |
Literary responses | Penelope Fitzgerald | A sentence from Anne Duchêne
, reviewing this book for the Times Literary Supplement, reads like a summary of responses to PF
: Her writing, as ever, has a natural authority, is very funny... |
Literary responses | Monica Furlong | In the Times Literary SupplementAnn Duchene
greeted this book with enthusiasm. Most of the time, she wrote, the story moves seamlessly, governed by a vivid, confident pen and by a generous intelligence. The book... |
Literary responses | Jane Gardam | Opinions used to advertise this volume included one from Elaine Feinstein
, who called JGa spare and elegant master of her art. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. (25 February 1983): 175 |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Jane Howard | This novel won the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year award. Anne Duchene
in the Times Literary Supplement suspected it of some odd and regrettable compulsions towards up-to-dateness. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
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