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[In "Make Death Love Me"], ordinary, middle-class people do an unusual thing once in their lives. Miss Rendell gives us a bank clerk, a milquetoast type, poor, with an unlovely family and, withal, a yen to lead a life of romance. The poor guy actually reads poetry and has a private interior life of his own. He is on hand when two punks rob his bank, and in the ensuing excitement he skips away with £3000. It is not a big sum but then the clerk is not asking for much from life.
Miss Rendell is an ironist. There is no free will. Men are puppets manipulated by outside forces, and as often as not the only reward in life is a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. There is a concurrent story in "Make Death Love Me," and the two stories, of course, mesh at the...
This section contains 228 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) |