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BOOK REVIEW
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FRANCES Vernon's suicide at the age of 27 makes the publication
of this, her fifth novel, particularly poignant. She had recently
finished it at the time of her death in 1991, and its posthumous
appearance is both a tragic reminder of what she might have gone on
to do, and a testimony to what she did achieve in the course of a
writing life which began when she was only 18 with her
award-winning first novel, Privileged Children.
Vernon's long-established interest in historical themes is
evident in The Fall of Doctor Onslow, which takes its inspiration
from the extraordinary memoirs of the ...
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Markus Lupertz. (Michael Werner, Cologne, Germany)
Magazine article from: Artforum International
; ...aftertaste, art-historical contextualization with Aleksey von Jawlensky, Paul Klee, Pablo Picasso, A. R. Penck, and Georg...course, to the medieval courtly romance of Wolfram von Eschenbach of the sam name, and offers a bridge to...
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