Volume 43, Number 7 · April 18, 1996
That Old Black Magic
By Hilary Mantel
Love, Again
by Doris Lessing
HarperCollins, 352 pp., $24.00
'The older you get the freer you are,' Doris Lessing told a British interviewer the year before last. In a long and distinguished career, one of Lessing's marked characteristics has been that she's not afraid to change her mind. This new novel bears evidence of rethinking. Its sixty-five-year-old heroine is anything but free. She is chained to her past selves and in thrall to emotions she had thought would never trouble her again.
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