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The Looking Glass
Michèle Roberts.
Picador USA: 2002
(paperback).
0312420838.
288 pages.
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Are you ready to meet France's best kept secret weapon? We're really not sure exactly why it is that we have never heard of Roberts before, but we're going to make sure that our readers can't make the same claim. Roberts' novels read like literary powerhouses, like the European classics of yesteryear-she's got that much sheer punch, deft ambition, and tight control.
The only difference is that they are way more fun to read than some of the work of the earlier French masters, such as Stendhal, Flaubert, Balzac. In this novel, set in Normandy at the turn of the last century, Roberts gives us an absolutely drop dead amazing portrait of a singularly charming man through the eyes of the four women who love him to the point of destruction. In essence, you get four great love stories for the price of one, and every line rippling wonderfully with the force of Roberts' incomparable writing. You are about to discover a new favorite author today.
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