A Spell of Grief

ABC By David Plante Pantheon. 247 pp. $23 David Plante's beautiful, otherworldly new novel is that improbable creation, a metaphysical page-turner reminiscent of other books around which literary cults have arisen: A.S. Byatt's Possession and John Fowles's The Magus both come to mind. Plante is t...
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