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Article: The Far Side of A Kiss. (The Critical Reader).(Anne Haverty's new novel)(Review)
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- World of Hibernia
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- March 22, 2001
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Anne Haverty: The Far Side of A Kiss (Chatto, 12.99 [pounds sterling] UK)
in 1823 the great English essayist William Hazlitt published Liber Amoris, his "book of love." By then he was 45 with seven years left to live. Although he was regarded as a writer of exciting, vivid prose, he had also won a reputation for eccentric and volatile behavior. However, his book of love caused a scandal less because of its theme of obsessive desire, but more because of the social status of its love object. Sarah Walker was not a great lady, preferably married, and therefore acceptably unattainable according to the rules of a great romance. Instead she was a young serving girl at ...