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Book Review - Lawrence Norfolk In the Shape of a Boar
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Book Review - Lawrence Norfolk In the Shape of a Boar Asked about his novels, Lawrence Norfolk can give you either a very short answer or a very long one. While promoting the book last year Norfolk was quoted as having described his debut novel, Lempriere's Dictionary, as "a 500-page book about a dead dictionary writer with no sex in it". His second novel The Pope's Rhinoceros, despite being 753 pages long, is just as simple to explain: "It's got the Pope at one end and the rhinoceros at the other and eventually they meet." But his third novel, In the Shape of a Boar, evades its author's pithy precis, "I won't get into that here." It's a fable about history, fiction and the nature of evil, using classical Greek mythology to tackle uncomfortable questions about Holocaust literature. Norfolk built a fiendishly complicated narrative for these complex questions. A reinvigorated retelling...
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