New Mortality
John Harvey
- The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
Cape, 401 pp, £6.95, October 1981, ISBN 0 224 01961 9 - The Villa Golitsyn by Piers Paul Read
Secker, 193 pp, £6.95, October 1981, ISBN 0 436 40968 2 - Funeral Games by Mary Renault
Murray, 257 pp, £6.95, November 1981, ISBN 0 7195 3883 1 - The Cupboard by Rose Tremain
Macdonald, 251 pp, £6.95, October 1981, ISBN 0 03 540476 0
One of the genuinely eerie moments in the recent huge and hollow film about a huge and hollow hotel, The Shining, comes in the late shot where we get a glimpse inside one of the rooms that should be empty, and see some sort of human bear, or person in a bearskin, kneeling to a woman in evening dress: this couple looks back at us slowly, surprised in we can’t guess what macabre rite of love.
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Vol. 3 No. 20 · 5 November 1981 » John Harvey » New Mortality
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