Volume 48, Number 19 · November 29, 2001

A Past Recaptured

By Hilary Mantel

A Favourite of the Gods

by Sybille Bedford

Counterpoint, 312 pp., $16.00 (paper)

A Compass Error

by Sybille Bedford

Counterpoint, 221 pp., $16.00 (paper)

Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education

by Sybille Bedford

Counterpoint, 351 pp., $15.00 (paper)

In Oliver Sacks's book An Anthropologist on Mars, there is an essay on the artist's memory. He remarks that it is the discontinuities in life that fuel reminiscence and, through reminiscence, myth and art:

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