Cheops: A Cupboard for the Sun

From: Artforum | Date: January 1, 2002| Author: Winter, Max | Copyright information

Cheops: A Cupboard for the Sun, by Paul West. New York: New Directions. 352 pages. $25.95.

Although Paul West travels through time quite frequently, he's never gotten jet lag. Recently, in O.K.: The Corral, the Earps, and Doc Holliday, he toured the addled mind of one of the Old West's most infamous doctors; in

The Dry Danube: A Hitler Forgery, he evoked the frustrations of Adolf Hitler as a middling painter in pre-World War I Vienna. This time, his story is raunchy, shrewdly ...

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