Jonathan Levi (review date 16 April 2000)
SOURCE: Levi, Jonathan. “The Origin of Species.” Los Angeles Times Book Review (16 April 2000): 19.
[In the following review, Levi offers a positive assessment of Being Dead.]
“These are the instruments of sex outdoors. You need good weather, somewhere dry to stretch out far from dogs and wasps, and no sense of the ridiculous.” No matter that they were a pair of homely zoologists at the uglier end of their 50s, Joseph and Celice had the good fortune of a sunny Tuesday with no classes to teach and...
Source: Contemporary Literary Criticism, ©2002 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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