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Article: A passion for art, an equal passion for love in `The Calligrapher'.
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- San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA)
- Article date:
- November 20, 2003
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Byline: David L. Beck
``The Calligrapher'' by Edward Docx; Houghton Mifflin ($24)
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John Donne, a rake and a rambling boy if ever there was one, haunts these pages the way he once haunted London, the way Jasper Jackson haunts his own 21st-century London, and for the same reason: looking for love in all the wrong places, and some of the right ones.
Jackson is the hero and narrator of Edward Docx's intelligent and amusing first novel, a sort of literary, artistic and sexual romp with enough twists of plot for a thriller, which in a sense it is. Donne is one of its subjects and most of its conscience.
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