An excellent read, sometimes strange, but no less excellent!

"Frederick Davidson reads this multi-layered book with more or less success. On one level, Davies's novel is "about" four academics: Maria Theotoky, the brilliant, beautiful graduate student; her adviser, the ascetic Dr. Hollier; Simon Darcourt, the bon vivant priest; and Parlabane, once an outstanding scholar, now sycophant to his former classmates. Then there is the basic plot theme: Who will end up with the girl? Standard stuff. Yet the real focus here is on the spiritual and/or mystical personal explorations of the main characters. Unfortunately the story's lack of organizational coherence has a negative effect on the apparent striving for deeper meaning. In addition, while Davidson is an extremely competent reader of male voices, he makes the supposedly alluring Maria sound almost maternal. For all its imperfections, this book is a compelling performance." -- I. Pour-El, Iowa State Univ. Lib., Ames

Finally, someone is willing to read this great (though strange) novel! Reserved for pjlareau in Minnesota...

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Received in a book trade. Thanks. I have become a rather recent fan of this author after reading two of his other books.

Excellent. It took me a while to get to this because I was waiting to get my hands on a copy of the third book of this trilogy before I started it.

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