Volume 39, Number 10 · May 28, 1992
Numbers Game
By Gabriele Annan
The Gates of Ivory
by Margaret Drabble
Viking, 463 pp., $21.00
Margaret Drabble's The Gates of Ivory is the third novel in a trilogy. The first was The Radiant Way, published in 1987. It began with a New Year's Eve party given on December 31, 1979, by a successful London psychiatrist called Liz Headleand. The new novel ends with another of Liz's parties. Same caterer, same guests, give or take a few. Only this time the party is a luncheon following a memorial service: an end, not a beginning.
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