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Pyramid Scheme
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The Washington Post
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November 10, 2002| Author:
Reviewed by Jonathan Dee
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CHEOPS
A Cupboard for the Sun
By Paul West
New Directions. 263 pp. $25.95
The 22nd book of fiction by the merrily eclectic Paul West
examines, with self-conscious flair, the very art and purpose of the
historical novel. Cheops, pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty of ancient
Egypt, was a vain tyrant, cruel to his family, indifferent to the
sufferings of the thousands he pressed into forced labor to gratify
his desire to build monuments to himself. He has escaped oblivion, ...
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Pyramid Scheme
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