Volume 34, Number 6 · April 9, 1987
Charmed Particles
By D.J. Enright
Sphinx
by D.M. Thomas
Viking, 248 pp., $17.95
Palais-Royal
by Richard Sennett
Knopf, 274 pp., $17.95
Sphinx, the successor to D.M. Thomas's Ararat and Swallow, embraces material enough for a dozen novels, although it can hardly be considered a novel itself, however liberal one's conception of the form. It resembles a vast telephone exchange, clicking and reverberating insanely as connections are made and broken, crossed lines are uncrossed, uncrossed lines are crossed.
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