Harry Gold (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Millicent Gerson
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1933-1972
- Setting: The Northeast and New Mexico
- Principal Characters: Harry Gold, Klaus Fuchs
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, 1970’s, United States or Americans, 1940’s, 1930’s, New Mexico, Espionage or spies, Intelligence service
- Locales: New Mexico, New England
Though Millicent Dillon has published two previous novels and a collection of short stories, she is best known as a biographer, especially of the novelists Paul and Jane Bowles. In Harry Gold, she combines fiction and biography (mostly the first), attempting to show Gold’s interior life by extrapolation from what is known about him—that he was a chemist and an unassuming spy, and that he never married. This novel, in short, is a character study based on educated guesswork.
The features of Gold’s personality that emerge in this treatment of his life are loyalty, an...
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