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Article: Renewal in a far more resonant key: reflections on the mad, sin-eating relics of fire in 'Resurrection at Sorrow Hill.'
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- The Review of Contemporary Fiction
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- June 22, 1997
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Kenneth Ramchand's virtually prophetic observation in 1968 that "Palace of the Peacock contains all Harris's basic themes, and anticipates his later designs" resounds as late as 1993 with an uncanny accuracy. For in Resurrection at Sorrow Hill we witness once again the fundamental validity of Ramchand's perception, as Harris escorts us through an elaborate and complex dramatization of one of the important themes of Palace of the Peacock: nothing less than the crucial and determinative resurrection that takes place at Sorrow Hill in the "rounded poetic vision" (as Ramchand puts it)(1) of Harris's first novel.
Most students of Harris's fiction will remember Sorrow ...
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Article: A Wilson Harris checklist.(Bibliography)
The Review of Contemporary Fiction;
June 22, 1997 ;
578 words
... ... London: Faber and Faber, 1987). The Four Banks of the River of Space (London: Faber and Faber, 1990). Resurrection at Sorrow Hill (London: Faber and Faber, 1993). Jonestown (London: Faber and Faber, 1996). Nonfiction History, Fable and Myth ...
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