![]() ![]() The novel begins with an obituary (humorously revealing more about the obituary writer's personal and professional jealousy than the deceased's life) and concludes with an Index of Names that runs to 178 entries over 13 pages. ![]() ![]() ![]() There are also several personages, in particular the academic Graham Speculand, the publisher's reader Morag McCoo and the murderer Sholto MacTweed. However, there are several overlapping plot lines, of which the most prominent are several versions of the Jack the Ripper story. It does not proceed in linear fashion, and there is no central character. With his new novel, Betrayals, the American-born, British-educated Palliser announces himself as a comic writer of considerable ability who, with each successive novel, frustrates reviewers' attempts to circumscribe him.īetrayals is decidedly experimental. $23 CHARLES PALLISER followed his gloriously reviewed first novel, The Quincunx (1989), a 788-page homage to Dickens, with The Sensationist (1991), a slight novel of only 153 pages that might be described as a minimalist work. BETRAYALS By Charles Palliser Ballantine. ![]()
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