Volume 37, Number 19 · December 6, 1990
In Violent Times
By John Banville
Amongst Women
by John McGahern
Viking, 184 pp., $17.95
Lies of Silence
by Brian Moore
Doubleday, 197 pp., $18.95
The Innocent
by Ian McEwan
Doubleday, 270 pp., $18.95
These three novels deal with violence, in one form or another. This is not the only thing they have in common. Indeed, there are more similarities than differences between them. However, one of them, Amongst Women, is utterly unlike the other two in one respect, that it is that rarest of things in contemporary fiction in English, an achieved and almost perfect work.
Review, 4250 words
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