Mere words, no matter from the heart.(Pinkerton's Sister)(Book Review)

Publication: Spectator

Publication Date: 18-SEP-04

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PINKERTON'S SISTER by Peter Rushforth Simon & Schuster, 18.99 [pounds sterling], pp. 729, ISBN 0743252357 16.99 [pounds sterling] (plus 2.25 [pounds sterling] p&p) 0870 800 4848

The first appearances are not encouraging: a 700-page novel, 25 years in the writing, which takes as its subject the creative process itself; a dauntingly post-modern 'work of imagination about the imagination' (blurb's italics). Set in late 19th-century New York, the central character--and titular sister--is Alice, a 'madwoman in the attic' straight out of Victorian literature. Alice's entire experience...

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