D. M. Thomas, Author . Duck Editions $26.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7156-3004-4
Of the making of sequels and prequels to Jane Eyre, there seems to be no end. Thomas's novel is conscious of the tradition, saluting Jean Rhys as well as Charlotte Brontë. Miranda Stevenson, the narrator through most of the book, is the...
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D. M. Thomas, Author Pocket Books $4.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-60607-7
Thomas (The White Hotel) calls this an ""improvisational novel.'' It is set at a fictional Olympiad in Finland, where competitors spontaneously narrate long, intricate tales that are judged for artistic quality. PW gave Swallow sevens and eights,...
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D. M. Thomas, Author Viking Books $15.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-670-81921-8
Thomas (The White Hotel) is not only an accomplished novelist, he is also a translator of Akhmatova and Pushkin. His Russian Quartet (Ararat, Swallow, Sphinx) is brought to completion in this straight-out, knockdown farce. The title alludes to no...
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D. M. Thomas, Author Viking Books $18.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-670-82357-4
Thomas adapted the style of Freudian case history to the Holocaust in his searing novel The White Hotel. Now he turns a psychoanalytic technique on himself in this unsparing autobiographical memoira patchwork of memories, dreamlike passages,...
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D. M. Thomas, Author Viking Books $17.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-670-83218-7
Concluding the quintet that began with Ararat , Thomas sets his writer-narrator, Don Thomas, in London at a meeting of Writers Internationale. Thomas and three Russian friends who collaborated on earlier books published in the West under the...
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D. M. Thomas, Author Penguin Books $8.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-14-013284-7
Writer-narrator Don Thomas and three Russian friends meet at a writers' conference to collaborate on a novel; equal time is devoted to the writers' exploits and to their improvised, sexually graphic tale . ``The novel in the reader's hands is as...
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D. M. Thomas, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $21 (231p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0142-1
Thomas, whose best-known if not best book remains The White Hotel, is his haunted, obsessive self in this tour de force that combines two of his passionate interests: the dark corners of psychiatry and the ironies of history. He imagines Sigmund...
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D. M. Thomas, Author Scribner Book Company $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-684-19510-0
The author of The White Hotel , whose subsequent books have been somewhat disappointing, is back on form in this dreamlike evocation of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Poetic and often daring in its associative leaps, it is a long way from the
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D. M. Thomas, Author Scribner Book Company $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-684-19586-5
Thomas's new novel is a return to the fascination with the horrors of war and the labyrinths of psychoanalysis that informed his bestselling The White Hotel , and has some of that novel's mesmerizing power. It begins with a young Jewish Czech inmate
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D. M. Thomas, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $22 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0308-1
Thomas, still best known for The White Hotel, published nearly 20 years ago, is an uneven writer whose work is never less than smoothly readable but who occasionally achieves some strikingly original and moving effects. The present novel, however (it
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D. M. Thomas, Author St. Martin's Press $29.95 (608p) ISBN 978-0-312-18036-2
With Michael Scammell's superb 1984 biography, Solzhenitsyn, out of print, as well as the Russian author's memoir, The Oak and the Calf (1980), devotees of Solzhenitsyn will have to be content with British poet Thomas's derivative book, which at...
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