Volume 39, Number 1 & 2 · January 16, 1992
Just Folks
By Brad Leithauser
Saint Maybe
by Anne Tyler
Knopf, 337 pp., $22.00
When readers first meet Ian Bedloe, the hero of Anne Tyler's new novel, Saint Maybe, he is approaching what he expects will be 'the most important night of his life': he is preparing to lose his virginity to his girlfriend, Cicely. One might say, though, that his sexual initiation is delayed until his marriage to a woman named Rita di-Carlo, some three hundred pages and two decades later. Although not strictly a virgin on his wedding day, he might as well be, for he has undergone more than twenty years of all but unbroken celibacy.
Review, 3708 words
To read the full text of this piece, please choose one of the following options:
|
If you are already a subscriber to the Review's electronic edition, please sign in: |
To subscribe to the electronic edition, please press the button below. |
To purchase access to this article for $3, please press the button below. |