Volume 36, Number 21 · January 18, 1990
Love Story
By Stuart Hampshire
Ackerley: The Life of J.R. Ackerley
by Peter Parker
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 465 pp., $25.00
J.R. Ackerley wrote two brilliant and original novels, Hindoo Holiday and We Think the World of You, and two almost equally brilliant memoirs, My Dog Tulip and My Father and Myself. His rather depressing diaries were posthumously published with the title My Sister and Myself. The self, and the mysteries of its attachments, viewed from a single and subjective center, were always his subject. He was an exclusively autobiographical writer, whether in fiction or in memoir.
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