Volume 27, Number 8 · May 15, 1980
Period Fiction
By Robert Towers
Falling in Place
by Ann Beattie
Random House, 342 pp., $10.95
The Transit of Venus
by Shirley Hazzard
Viking, 337 pp., $11.95
The Passion Artist
by John Hawkes
Harper & Row, 185 pp., $9.95
Before us are three novels—one of them crypto-Victorian, one old-fashionedly Modern, and the third so relentlessly up-to-date that it can be read as a fictional appendix to The Culture of Narcissism. Two of the books are stylistically ambitious; the third pretends not to be, but is sufficiently deft in its own dead-pan way. Let's begin with the latter.
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