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true colors.(Valerie Martin)(Brief article)
Byline: Margaret Johnson
Orange Prize winner Valerie Martin has a gift for claiming familiar literary ground as her own. Consider her 1990 best-seller, Mary Reilly, which retold Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde novella from an unexpected new perspective. With The Unfinished Novel and Other Stories (Vintage), her remarkable second collection of short fiction, she does it again, this time taking on
the cliche of the tortured artist, from the ...
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