Volume 43, Number 10 · June 6, 1996
En Route to the Catastrophe
By J.M. Coetzee
Babel Tower
by A.S. Byatt
Random House, 622 pp., $25.95
In the 1970s the British novelist A.S. Byatt (b. 1936) embarked on an ambitious project: a sequence of novels that would trace the growth of a woman of her own class and generation and education, from the drab early 1950s through the cultural revolution of the 1960s.
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