Tear in the Curtain
Tessa Hadley: Deborah Eisenberg, 17 August 2006
Twilight of the Superheroes
by Deborah Eisenberg.
Picador, 225 pp., £14.99, July 2006,9780330444590 Show More
by Deborah Eisenberg.
Picador, 225 pp., £14.99, July 2006,
“... all too easy to sound schmaltzy, or sanctimonious, or quivery with frisson. So the title story of Deborah Eisenberg’s new collection approaches its subject with reticence. The narrative, shared between Lucien, the owner of a New York art gallery, and his nephew Nathaniel, is assembled warily, piece by piece, each separated on the page from the others ... ”