Books
August, 1978
First, two brief words about Paul Theroux's new novel, Picture Palace (Houghton Mifflin): Read it. If nothing else this summer, treat yourself to this versatile author's eighth novel, an extremely well-told story about Maude Pratt, photographer now in her 70s, whose life's work is being gathered for a retrospective show. Her relationship with archivist Frank Fusco is merely the thin frame for the real story: Maude's incestuous feelings for her brother Orlando. In Maude, Theroux has treated one o...
