McAfee, Annalena

McAfee delivers a spellbinding tale exploring the price artists, and especially female artists, must pay to achieve their ambitions, with issues of sexual politics, marriage, and children folded into the mix. Highly recommended and an exceptional choice for discussion groups.

If McWatt were a more compelling character, or his story had a little more drama, it might have warranted McAfee's (The Spoiler) over-longish treatment (complete with footnotes, glossaries, inventories and a bibliography). As it is, there is still something to admire in this prodigiously imagined life. [See Prepub Alert, 3/13/17.]