Volume 43, Number 16 · October 17, 1996
Other People's Wives
By Michael Wood
John's Wife
by Robert Coover
Simon and Schuster, 428 pp., $24.00
The Debt to Pleasure
by John Lanchester
Henry Holt, 251 pp., $20.00
What's a tour de force? A show of strength, with an emphasis on the show, the performance, the bedazzlement. The strength is artistic, but there is still perhaps an element of arm-twisting. Does the phrase necessarily imply that we like the show less than we admire it? Or only that there are shows we like more than this one, scenes where dazzled admiration is not the main feeling we have?
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