Enid’s Scars
Peter McDonald, 23 June 1988
You must remember this
by Joyce Carol Oates.
Macmillan, 436 pp., £10.95, January 1988,0 333 46182 7 Show More
by Joyce Carol Oates.
Macmillan, 436 pp., £10.95, January 1988,
A Case of Knives
by Candia McWilliam.
Bloomsbury, 266 pp., £12.95, January 1988,0 7475 0074 6 Show More
by Candia McWilliam.
Bloomsbury, 266 pp., £12.95, January 1988,
“... stories to be hidden or revealed. Besides Enid’s, there is the strange history of her brother Warren, which runs from Korea to betrayed political idealism and an intense but finally betrayed love-affair in Philadelphia; that of her father Lyle, who moves into clearer focus as a frustrated figure of compromised integrity, a romantic whose life refuses to ... ”