In Every Society, The Artists

Love Is A General Emotion. Marriage Is Exactingly Specific.

You Know That The Urge For Revenge Is A Fact Of Marital Life.

Charles Dickens Was An Avid Seeker Of Names - He Read Directories And Looked For Odd Names On Gravestones.

I Think That The Cold War Was An Exceptional And Unnecessary Piece Of Cruelty.

'ape House' Is An Ambitious Novel In Several Ways, For Which It Is To Be Admired, And It Is Certainly An Easy Read, But Because Gruen Is Not Quite Prepared For The Philosophical Implications Of Her Subject, It Is Not As Deeply Involving Emotionally Or As Interesting Thematically As It Could Be.