Volume 51, Number 20 · December 16, 2004
Confidence Games
By Caroline Fraser
The Silver Screen
by Maureen Howard
Viking, 244 pp., $24.95
'The novel became my game,' writes Maureen Howard in an essay in The New York Times. 'We are in this game together,' she goes on, defining 'reading, real reading' as a 'strenuous and pleasurable contact sport.'[*] The theme of reading and writing as a game is pervasive in her work, and the games she plays with the reader—allusive, structural, self-referential games—contribute to her novels' rich and sometimes confounding complexity.
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