Magical Realism
D.A.N. Jones, 1 August 1985
The House of the Spirits
by Isabel Allende, translated by Magda Bogin.
Cape, 368 pp., £8.95, July 1985,0 224 02231 8 Show More
by Isabel Allende, translated by Magda Bogin.
Cape, 368 pp., £8.95, July 1985,
Careful with the Sharks
by Constantine Phipps.
Cape, 216 pp., £8.95, May 1985,9780224023085 Show More
by Constantine Phipps.
Cape, 216 pp., £8.95, May 1985,
“... over-hyped bestseller, we might be tempted to overpraise the wit, skill and seriousness of Gloria Naylor in a novel that perhaps truly deserves that odd label, ‘magical realism’. Linden Hills is a plausible and informative account of an expensive, exclusive suburb peopled by rather snobbish black Americans: but it is imbued with a sense of the ... ”
