'The Horror'

Document Type

Book Review

Department

English (Scripps)

Publication Date

8-31-1992

Disciplines

English Language and Literature | Fiction

Abstract

The Gates of Ivory begins as Liz Headleand-familiar from The Radiant Way and A Natural Curiousity, the preceding novels of the trilogy that Margaret Drabble here completes-recelves a curious package in her post one morning, a package contaming part of a human finger bone. It arrives from Stephen Cox, last seen at the end of The Radrant Way, on his way to Cambodia to write a play about Pol Pot; it contains fragments of a prose manuscript and a play, some journals, postcards, sketches and a booklet of “Atrocity Stories,” but no message or mstruction.

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© 1992 The Nation

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