Volume 35, Number 5 · March 31, 1988
The Way We Live Now
By Robert Towers
The Book and The Brotherhood
by Iris Murdoch
Viking, 607 pp., $19.95
Found in the Street
by Patricia Highsmith
Atlantic Monthly Press, 277 pp., $16.95
Iris Murdoch seems headed toward an almost Trollopian record of productivity. Like Trollope but unlike, say, Dickens, she has become, since the early, 'experimental' phase of Under the Net and The Flight from the Enchanter, a novelist of remarkably even achievement and pleasurable predictability, one who can be counted on to marshal her characters and put them before us with dispatch and ease, to comment sharply on their antics, and to win our light-hearted curiosity about 'the way everything is going to turn out.'
Review, 3346 words
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