Volume 34, Number 3 · February 26, 1987
Writers at Play
By D.J. Enright
The Fall of Kelvin Walker: A Fable of the Sixties
by Alasdair Gray
George Braziller, 144 pp., $14.95
Saints and Strangers
by Angela Carter
Viking, 126 pp., $13.95
There are allegorical tales, usually rather short, that resemble instant powders or concentrates: if you add water, in the shape of extra incidents and ancillary characters, you have a decent novel of a standard kind. The Fall of Kelvin Walker isn't one of these: if you diluted it, you would end with a lumpy gruel.
Review, 2790 words
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