Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Woolfpole: Charles Lambert on Normblog


Chez Topsyturvydom, we are very pleased to see Charles Lambert occupying the guest slot over at the mighty Normblog. Charles has chosen Christopher Isherwood's little known book The Memorial, which I must admit I don't know. I would be curious to read it though, as Charles has whetted my appetite with this description: "It's an odd amalgam of faux-modernism and the traditional novel, as though Isherwood still hasn't made up his mind what kind of writer he plans to be: Virginia Woolf or Hugh Walpole." Still trying to imagine what a combination of Walpole and Woolf would look like...