Book Reviews: A Quantum Leap of the Imagination

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Oh Pure andRadiant Heart Lydia Millet William Heinemann, GBP 10.99

SOMETIMES a novel comes along with a premise so outrageous, and an imagination so prolific, that I read it in an almost hyperventilating state of disbelief, marvelling on each page at what the author appears to be getting away with. Such a book is Lydia Millet's Oh Pure and Radiant Heart, a risky, cheeky and unforgettable tour de force.

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Book Reviews: A Quantum Leap of the Imagination

Arizona-based Millet is the author of four other novels, only one of which, Omnivores, is intermittently available here. My Happy Life won the PEN-USA Award for Fiction, and her last work, Everybody's Pretty, drew on her one-time day job as a sub-editor for Larry Flynt's pornographic magazines. She also gets my award for most mischie...

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