Volume 30, Number 10 · June 16, 1983
Double Exposure
By Robert M. Adams
Ararat
by D. M. Thomas
Viking, 191 pp., $13.50
Tzili: The Story of a Life
by Aharon Appelfeld, translated by Dalya Bilu
Dutton, 185 pp., $12.95
Readers of the The White Hotel will miss, in D.M. Thomas's new novel, Ararat, that 'oceanic' feeling which made the first book such a memorable experience. On the other hand, they will find all the fun-house devices of that book—echo chambers, shadow boxes, switchbacks, and double exposures. Ararat is a cold, ingenious, and confident novel; it will confirm the author's reputation as one of the most inventive and resourceful writers of fiction in English today; but perhaps it should be labeled 'For Game Players Only.'
Review, 2581 words
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