The Orchard
Macmillan, $24.95 hb
Fiction
A pear of paradoxes
by Liam Davidson •
Like Drusilla Modjeska’s earlier book, Poppy, this is a book that resists easy classification. It’s the sort of book that may infuriate those who like their ideas served up in separate self-contained portions: fiction, history, biography, criticism. It’s also likely to confound librarians and booksellers, faced with the problem of where to shelve it. Modjeska’s ideas are not answerable to the Dewey Decimal System.
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The Orchard
by Drusilla Modjeska
Macmillan, $24.95 hb
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