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Fall 2010 • Vol. XXXII No. 4 • Book Reviews |

Come Back: The Work and Life of Storm Jameson

Margaret Storm Jameson: A Life by Jennifer Birkett. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. 441 pages. $49.95, hardcover.

The fiction of Storm Jameson includes some of the most haunting writing of the twentieth century; it lingers in the mind precisely when it borders on the experience of the revenant, on the compulsive return to a place from which the spirit has been removed by time; it feels a way between attachment and severance, between recovery and loss:

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Rod Menghham lectures in English at the University of Cambridge where he is also a fellow of Jesus College. He has published several books on nineteenth- and twentieth-century writing, most recently Introduction to Contemporary Fiction (Polity, 1999).

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