Michele Roberts.(News)

The People (London, England);  September 1, 1996 ;     66 words ......programme, we incorrectly stated that Michele Roberts had betrayed her best pal by seducing...accompanied our story made clear, it was Michele Roberts' son, Stephen Roberts, who had been...Michelle Williams. We apologise to Michele Roberts for the distress caused by our article...

A dance to the music of London

The Spectator;  April 12, 2003 ;   Lively, Penelope;   540 words ...THE MISTRESSCLASS by Michele Roberts Little, Brown, L15.99, pp. 295, ISBN 0316725501 Michele Roberts writes some of the most sensual prose...might seem gratuitous page-fillers. Michele Roberts uses them to create a climate for her...

(book reviews)

World Literature Today;  June 22, 1996 ;   Hart, Patricia;   652 words ......deftly conjured up an anthology on magic realism that is a concrete example of one of...natural and social realities . . . [while magic realism's] program is not centralizing, but...of Franz Roh's landmark article on magic realism - a seemingly simple gesture, yet one...

Books: How to lose the abbey habit The Books Interview: In fiction, as in...

The Independent - London;  January 9, 1999 ;   Christina Patterson;   787 words ...The first surprise is that Michele Roberts has swapped her house in Holloway...on her weight and swims every day. Michele Roberts is nearly 50, and she is glowing...good read with not a nun in sight. Michele Roberts without Catholicism would, one imagines...

Sights and scents of life Jessica Mann finds many sensuous delights in...

The Sunday Telegraph London;  June 24, 2001 ;   Jessica Mann;   312 words ...Playing Sardines by Michele Roberts Virago, pounds 9.99, 196 pp pounds 8.99 (99p p&p) 0870 155 7222 MICHELE ROBERTS writes about delightful things...smells and sights and sex. Though Michele Roberts writes in English she is partly...

A merry widow

The Scotsman;  January 8, 2005 ;   ALLAN MASSIE;   473 words ...Reader, I married him by Michele Roberts Little, Brown, GBP 14.99 Review...MASSIE THE OPENING PAGES OF Michele Roberts's new novel promise a delightful...improbable than the convent itself. Michele Roberts writes about Leonora and her...

Food for puzzled thought

The Spectator;  January 16, 1999 ;   Barrow, Andrew;   597 words ...FAIR EXCHANGE by Michele Roberts Little, Brown, 15.99, pp. 246...constructions seem to be one of Michele Roberts's specialities and during the...and became indulgent towards Michele Roberts's luscious style - not to mention...

Books: Sainthood made simple

The Sunday Telegraph London;  May 18, 1997 ;   JULIA FLYNN;   380 words ...Impossible Saints by Michele Roberts Little Brown, pounds 14.99, 308 pp SAINTLINESS, for Michele Roberts, covers a multitude of sins. You don...of lyricism and real ten derness. Michele Roberts is a rather uneven writer. If she...

BOOK REVIEW

The Independent - London;  September 11, 1994 ;   LORNA SAGE;   787 words ...MICHELE ROBERTS is still busy sorting through her...few promising things about them in Michele Roberts's book). Bodies are like clothes...literary version of dressing up. Michele Roberts rewrites herself too: this is a...

Foresight from the past

The Scotsman;  January 9, 1999 ;   Helen Stevenson;   685 words ...Fair Exchange By Michele Roberts Little Brown, GBP 15.99 IN an...the decade. In Fair Exchange , Michele Roberts has written a book which contains...Louise copes with them too. Michele Roberts has found an envelope in which...

Permeable borders, possible worlds: history and identity in the novels of...

Studies in the Literary Imagination;  September 22, 2003 ;   White, Rosie;   787 words ......novel, A Piece of the Night, in 1978, Michele Roberts continually has returned in her fiction...location for theorizing the (im)possible. Michele Roberts's first three novels, A Piece of the...narratives which veer toward Kunstlerroman. Michele Roberts's novels implicitly propose the ...

Cooking up some magic realism Director Alfonso Arau mixes love and...

The Boston Globe;  March 14, 1993 ;   Fernando Gonzalez, Globe Staff;   787 words ......In short, Esquivel achieves kitchen magic realism, in a writing style and installment...can't put it down." But translating magic realism to the screen has proved very difficult...about that," said Arau. "But then, magic realism in Latin-American literature does not...

40 UNDER Forty: Michele Roberts

The Billings Gazette;  January 11, 2004 ;   Anonymous;   186 words ...Michele Roberts Operating room manager Beartooth Hospital and Health Center Age...Hiking Person most like to meet: Princess Di Hero: My grandmother In Michele Roberts' family, there are nine involved in nursing. Roberts is from Miles...

magic realism

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms;    CHRISTOPHER BALDICK;   242 words ...magic realism, a kind of modern fiction in which fabulous and fantastical events...levitation, flight, telepathy, telekinesis—are among the means that magic realism adopts in order to encompass the often phantasmagoric political realities...

A spell of magic realism from Latin America

The Hindustan Times;  February 26, 2006 ;     520 words ...New Delhi, Feb 26 -- For Indians, magic realism is an everyday affair. "They believe Lord Ganesha can sip...Spanish literature put it. "No, Indians have no trouble with magic realism," averred S.P. Ganguly, a professor at Jawaharlal Nehru...