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adam louis stephanides28 May 1998, 17:02originalas archived
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On Wed, 27 May 1998 Mark Kelly wrote: To those people who suggested "The Magus" by John Fowles, and the > "Gormenghast" trilogy by Mervyn Peake, I heartily agree. I would also > add a book called "The Quincunx" by Charles Palliser, which is a novel > with an extremely complex plot set in Dickensian London.
Palliser's subsequent book, entitled "Betrayals" IIRC, is also rather Wolfeian, in that it consists of a series of seemingly unrelated narratives, the connections between which must be deduced by the reader. --Adam

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