My Lists
Featured Lists
REVIEWS
Library Journal
Reviewed on July 1, 1998
Wilson (A Watch in the Night, LJ 9/15/96) updates Nabokov's Lolita with inspiration from theoreticians as far-flung as Kant and Lewis Carroll. Oliver Gold, an enervated intellectual, moves into a London home. He is the pet hermit of the household, which comprises a name-dropping widow, her lesbian daughter, the daughter's lover, the daughter's own very young daughter, and an Austrian au ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More




