DOWN & OUT IN LIFE TINE AND TIDE Edna O'Brien Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $21, 326 pp. Robert E. Hosmer, Jr. ike Milton's elegy "Lycidas," Edna O'Brien's latest novel, Time and Tide, is a haunting...
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ONE FIXED DESIRE LETTERS OF KATHERINE ANNE PORTER Selected and Edited by Isabel Bayley Atlantic Monthly Press, $29.95, 642 pp. Robert E. Hosmes', Jr. H. Auden was "an unusually stinking and...
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WRITING WITH INTENT THE ARTISTRY OF MURIEL SPARK ROBERT E. HOSMER, JR. In Muriel Spark's fifth nov*el, The Bachelors (1960), Ronald Bridges, an epileptic graphologist, announces, "To me, being...
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BOOKS The midwife arrived too late No doubt a good many American readers have never heard of Eva Figes, and that's a shame, for her fiction often reveals an insightful and-creative mind at...
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