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About Katie ROIPHE
See more books from this AuthorHe represses such thoughts as best he can but is plagued by nightmares in which much of the surreal imagery of Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking-Glass first appears.
| Read Full Review of Still She Haunts MeIn one crucial scene, a boating trip during which Dodgson begins telling the story that became ''Alice,'' Roiphe informs us that ''the London Meteorological Society recorded the weather around Oxford on July 4, 1862, as 'rather cool and wet,' '' while Dodgson later remembered a sky of ''cloudless...
Sep 16 2001 | Read Full Review of Still She Haunts MeThe Grand Ambition Lisa Michaels Sceptre £14.99, pp262 Still She Haunts Me: A Novel of Lewis Carroll and Alice Liddell Katie Roiphe Review £10, pp222 Pop Kitty Aldridge Cape £15.99, pp249 A few years ago, Lisa Michaels, a young Californian writer, published an excellent memoir about growing up wi...
Nov 04 2001 | Read Full Review of Still She Haunts MeWhen Dodgson ruins a photograph of his beloved Alice by mistakenly rubbing out the features of her face, the resulting blur seems to mirror the novel: despite great care, what is meant to be a clear psychological portrait renders its subject fuzzy and distorted.
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