He is in fact the architect of the very churches in which the Is a measure of the author's ingenuity (and, perhaps, his audacity) that while Hawksmoor is our contemporary, Dyer lived and died in the early 18th century. and who could say where one had ended and the other had begun?'' It They were face to face, and yet they looked past one another at the pattern which they cast upon the stone. The sites of certain 18th-century churches - enters into an alliance of sorts with the very murderer he seeks, a devil worshiper named Nicholas Dyer: ''And his own Image was sitting beside him. New novel, '' Hawksmoor,'' this mystical transformation occurs as the spiritually exhausted Hawksmoor - a senior detective assigned to investigate a series of murders committed on Of salvation: ''In that moment of transition, when I was myself and someone else, of my own time and in another's, the secrets of the universe would stand revealed.'' At the conclusion of Mr. $16.95.ĪT the conclusion of Peter Ackroyd's ''Last Testament of Oscar Wilde'' - a work of fiction imagined in Wilde's own voice - the dying Wilde, exiled and dishonored, fantasizes entering into another man's heart as a way Section 7, Column 1 Book Review Deskīy Joyce Carol Oates Joyce Carol Oates, who teaches at Princeton University, is the author of the forthcoming novel ''Marya: A Life.'' January 19, 1986, Sunday, Late City Final Edition The New York Times: Book Review Search Article
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