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008			111213s1998 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a98007721
020			_a0393027406
050	0	0	_aPR6073.I439 _bD7 1998
082	0	0	_aFIC WIL
100	1		_aWilson, A. N. _d, 1950-
245	1	0	_aDream children _c/ A.N. Wilson
250			_a1st American ed
260			_aNew York _b: W.W. Norton _c, 1998
300			_a218 p. _c; 25 cm.
520			_aWilson updates Nabokov's Lolita with inspiration from theoreticians as far-flung as Kant and Lewis Carroll. Oliver Gold, an enervated intellectual, moves into a London home. He is the pet hermit of the household, which comprises a name-dropping widow, her lesbian daughter, the daughter's lover, the daughter's own very young daughter, and an Austrian au pair. Oliver's attraction to the child plays out across several years until she approaches her tenth year and he resolves to find a decent way to let both her and himself out of the affair. He decides upon marriage as a suitable escape, choosing a brittle and tiny American as a suitable fiancée, but he is panicked by the disappearance of his indiscreet journal. Two surprise denouements are packed into this small but powerful volume, in which the only misstep is the very British vocabulary of the American characters. Provocative and timely, interlarded with both eternal philosophical quests and contemporary courtroom issues, this promises to have popular appeal as well as to uphold the author's considerable literary reputation.
650		0	_aWomen _v--Fiction
651			_aMexico _x-Constitucion _x-Reformas, etc
655		7	_aErotic fiction
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