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Article: Nightpictures.(Review)
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- Quadrant
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2001 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Nightpictures, by Rod Jones; Random House Australia, 1997, $24.95.
THE SETTING for Nightpictures is Venice; and there's no better backdrop for evoking such intense feelings of decay and decline than this city, with its reputation for stench, slime and creeping damp! If one views the canals of Venice as a circulatory system similar to the blood, the biological overtones and the similarities between the human body and the lifeblood of this city become even more apparent. This is further enhanced by the repetition of the line, "A girl sewn into the stomach of an ass" (from Apuleius' The Golden Ass). Rod Jones's writing appeals strongly to the senses. It is almost ...
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