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Byatt Sits on Potter

Posted at 9:08PM Monday 07 Jul 2003

AS Byatt joins the HP backlash in a sledghammer v. nut review from the NY Times:

"They comfort against childhood fears as Georgette Heyer once comforted us against the truths of the relations between men and women, her detective stories domesticating and blanket-wrapping death. These are good books of their kind. But why would grown-up men and women become obsessed by jokey latency fantasies?"

Why indeed.

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