David Leavitt
writes of the paired novels A Favourite of the Gods and A Compass Error (with an intriguing echo of Churchill
on last-ditch military resistance which is aimed at drawing out the importance of...
Reception
Rose Tremain
David Leavitt
in the New York Times Sunday Book Review called this book bold and risky in its design and authoritative in its storytelling.
Leavitt, David. “Place of Last Resort”. New York Times Sunday Book Review.
Textual Features
Sybille Bedford
Reviewer Pamela Petro
notes the importance in SB
's works of her own distinctly worldly voice, whose deliberately knowing, clever, and aristocratic qualities are likely on occasion to irk more modern sensibilities.
Petro, Pamela. “A traveler’s tales”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
xx
, No. 10-11, p. 35.
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Texts
Leavitt, David. “Place of Last Resort”. New York Times Sunday Book Review.
