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Merrill Table Talk
Corn, Alfred | August 20, 2001 issue

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This article appraises the book "Familiar Spirits," by Alison Lurie. "Familiar Spirits," does not recount the remainder of Lurie's career as a fiction writer, but the author says that he will support his opening comment above by pointing out that her third novel, an expose of the world of mediums and spiritualist mysticism, is dedicated to Merrill and Jackson. In Real People, her fourth, the writer heroine, during a residency at an artists' colony based on Yaddo, forgoes the company of a refined writer boyfriend for an affair with a crude but sexy sculptor, who advances his suit by suggesting that her previous attachment is a closeted homosexual.

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FAMILIAR Spirits (Book); LURIE, Alison; FAMILIARS (Spirits); MYSTICISM; SPIRITUAL life; GAYS
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