Volume 50, Number 16 · October 23, 2003
Stranded in the Dark
By Joyce Carol Oates
Giving Up the Ghost
by Hilary Mantel
John Macrae/Henry Holt,223 pp., $23.00
Eight Months on Ghazzah Street
by Hilary Mantel
Picador, 278 pp., $14.00 (paper)
'Plain words on plain paper. Remember what Orwell says, that good prose is like a windowpane.' Hilary Mantel begins her dazzlingly written memoir by quoting Orwell, and then refuting him:
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