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Stitched Up

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June–July 2003, no. 252

Born of the Sea by Victor Kelleher

Viking, $29.95 pb, 339 pp

Stitched Up

by
June–July 2003, no. 252

The tradition of supplementary fiction dates at least from the fifteenth century, when supplements to the works of Geoffrey Chaucer were generated by the perception that his texts were unfinished or that he had not imposed a sufficiently firm moral closure on them. Robert Henryson famously thought Chaucer hadn’t punished Criseyde enough for her betrayal of Troilus, and set out to remedy the omission in his own Testament of Cresseid. In a more recent example, Emma Tennant’s execrable Pemberly traces the tempestuous married life of Jane Austen’s Darcy and Elizabeth, though in the style of a Neighbours episode.

Born of the Sea

Born of the Sea

by Victor Kelleher

Viking, $29.95 pb, 339 pp

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