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Article: BOOK REVIEW
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 11, 1994
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright 1994 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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MICHELE ROBERTS is still busy sorting through her inventory of
inherited themes and dreams - the bundles of fictional stuff
bequeathed by a half-French, half-English family line, her lapsed
Catholic's born-again paganism, and the legacies of her fictional
foremothers Woolf and Colette. Flesh and Blood has a strong savour
of Orlando about it - that is, of Woolf at her most flirtatious,
bold and Colette-ish, since it's a book whose shaping metaphors are
those of dressing up, cross-dressing and drag, and whose creative
centre and secret space seems to be "the inside of my mother's
wardrobe".
So there's immediately a seductive sensation of regression about
the writing - back to the delights of ...
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... ... with golden-hearted Bess in a tavern near St Paul's, whence he watches the spread of the Great Fire. Sparkling and erudite, this is a wonderful novel. Michele Roberts's new stories, `Playing Sardines', are published by Virago
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