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Paul West. Cheops: a Cupboard for the Sun.(Book Review)
From:
The Review of Contemporary Fiction
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September 22, 2003| Author:
Madden, David W.
| COPYRIGHT 2003 Review of Contemporary Fiction. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information
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New Directions, 2002.262 pp. $25.95.
Cheops is Paul West's twenty-second novel, and as with W. B. Yeats before him, West's muse gets younger and more vibrant with each new book. Once again West wanders into a corner of history, in this case ancient history, to imagine an unlikely meeting of titans who joust and inspire one another. The novel features multiple narrators, the most important of which are the Egyptian god Osiris, the pharaoh Cheops, and the Greek historian H...