Review
MORAL LIFE AND THE NOVEL
Michigan Quarterly Review, Vol.46(2), p365
01 Apr 2007
Abstract
The setting for Intuition is a cancer research laboratory in Boston; the focus is on the day-to-day activity of laboratory work and the sudden, heady excitement that the researchers experience when they believe they have achieved a scientific breakthrough. (Boston may be the archetypal setting of the contemporary social novel much as London was in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.) Belsey, who is British and white, is married to an American black woman and has three children who are struggling with issues of political affiliation, religious belief, and race identity. Smith herself is the daughter of a white British father and a Jamaican mother; she grew up in a working-class neighborhood in London, attended Cambridge University, and spent time at Harvard-all variables that get expressed in the novel's conflicting and overlapping loyalties.
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- Title
- MORAL LIFE AND THE NOVEL
- Creators
- Paula Marantz Cohen
- Publication Details
- Michigan Quarterly Review, Vol.46(2), p365
- Publisher
- University of Michigan; Ann Arbor
- Resource Type
- Review
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Pennoni Honors College
- Identifiers
- 991020836373604721