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Absolutely Revolting
Fiction

A pear of paradoxes

The Orchard by Drusilla Modjeska

by Liam Davidson •
September 1994, no. 164

The Orchard by Drusilla Modjeska

Macmillan, $24.95 hb

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Like Drusilla Modjeska’s earlier book, Poppy, this is a book that resists easy classification. It’s the sort of book that may infuriate those who like their ideas served up in separate self-contained portions: fiction, history, biography, criticism. It’s also likely to confound librarians and booksellers, faced with the problem of where to shelve it. Modjeska’s ideas are not answerable to the Dewey Decimal System.

 


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The Orchard by Drusilla Modjeska

Macmillan, $24.95 hb

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ABR receives a commission on items purchased through this link. All ABR reviews are fully independent.

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