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Janette Turner Hospital, in embracing the theme of terrorism, has taken the literary novel back to something akin to Graham Greene's work. She is a thriller writer where the murderers and the victims are 'real.' Orpheus Lost is a powerfully plotted book that has moral gravity and that is also touched by a spirit of mercy. It is a remarkable literary performance that can explain why Joyce Carol Oates described Hospital as a major writer.
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Epigraph: To lose beauty in terror, terror in inquisition. -- T. S. Eliot, 'Gerontion' (18)
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Due Preparations for Paradise : or, The Plague Now According to Hany Abu-Assad and Janette Turner Hospital
2012
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— Appears in: Engaging with Literature of Commitment : The Worldly Scholar (Volume 2) 2012; (p. 217-230)
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Due Preparations for Paradise : or, The Plague Now According to Hany Abu-Assad and Janette Turner Hospital
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Engaging with Literature of Commitment : The Worldly Scholar (Volume 2) 2012; (p. 217-230)
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Beauty in Terror : Janette Turner Hospital's 'Orpheus Lost'
Critique : Studies in Contemporary Fiction
Critique : Studies in Contemporary Fiction
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