Volume 39, Number 12 · June 25, 1992
Child's Play
By Kerry Fried
Hideous Kinky
by Esther Freud
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 186 pp., $18.95
Hideous Kinky begins as a small, cheerful, autobiographical novel following the Thurber variation on Wordsworth: 'Humor is emotional chaos recollected in tranquillity.' In the mid-Sixties two girls, aged five and seven, travel with their mother from London, where 'there were a lot of people waiting to be given mantras,' to Marrakech. They are accompanied by John, their mother's boyfriend, and Maretta, John's wife.
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