Posted on 25/10/03
Lives of the spirits
TransformationsBy James KingCormorant, 258 pages, $29.95It must be liberating for a biographer such as James King to write novels based on the lives of real people. Having written biographies of, among others, Margaret Laurence, Virginia Woolf and Farley Mowat, one can assume that King derives some satisfaction from piecing together the puzzle of lives lived. And yet it must chafe, from time to time, having to confine himself to the facts. This may explain why all three of King's novels -- Faking, Blue Moon and the newly published Transformations -- are "loosely" based on the lives of historical figures.
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