Volume 49, Number 16 · October 24, 2002
Sterne's Great Game
By John Bayley
Laurence Sterne: A Life
by Ian Campbell Ross
Oxford University Press, 498 pp., $40.00; $19.95 (paper)
The cover of Ian Campbell Ross's admirable biography displays a picture wholly in keeping with its subject. A clerical gentleman, long-nosed and lank of form, attired in decorous black coat and breeches and a neat gray tie-wig, is amiably confronting the skeletal form of Death, who raises an outsize hourglass on high in one bony hand while in the other he grasps a businesslike scythe with an all-too- meaningful gesture. One hand held gracefully to his breast the parson makes his bow, his sharp civil features enwreathed in the most disarming of smiles.
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