Book Review

rev. of Amazon One by M.F. Beal

M. F. Beal's long visionary story "Gold" was featured in the New American Review in 1971. That piece, along with others in earlier issues of NAR, the Atlantic, and the Paris Review, earned for her a considerable reputation, including mention in Gravity's Rainbow. Amazon One is Beal's first published novel, and will, it is to…

rev. of Camellia Street by Merce Rodoreda, trans. by David H. Rosenthal

Camellia Street  A novel by Mercè Rodoreda, translated by David H. Rosenthal. Graywolf Press, $20.00 cloth. Reviewed by James Carroll. “They abandoned me on Camellia Street, in front of a garden gate, and the night watchman found me early the next morning.” So begins Camellia Street, a small masterpiece of fiction by Mercè Rodoreda, the…