An Emerald Ring, a Portable Heater and $150 an Hour
Zoë Heller, 20 February 1997
Leaving a Doll’s House: A Memoir
by Claire Bloom.
Virago, 288 pp., £16.99, October 1996,1 86049 146 4 Show More
by Claire Bloom.
Virago, 288 pp., £16.99, October 1996,
“... attempts to mollify Bloom for having cruelly depicted her in his novel Deception; the review by John Updike of Operation Shylock that drives Roth to commit himself to a psychiatric hospital, suffering from a nervous breakdown; the arsenal of psychotropics (Lithium, Halcion, Xanax, Valium, Prozac) used to calm the couple’s respective nervous systems ... ”