D.H. Lawrence: A Biography:by Jeffrey Meyers (Vintage; Rs 330). The brilliant, priapically fixated miner's son from Nottingham led an energetic life which, in its ability to shock, paralleled his fiction. Meyers is competent with Lawrence, plumbing the private depths that made him a great writer.The Death And Life Of Sylvia Plath: by Ronald Heyman (Minerva; Rs 420). Another attempt at exploring the short life of one of the most enigmatic heroines of literary history. Heyman, who's done biographies of Kafka, Sartre and Proust, provides some new details on the Plath-Ted Hughes relationship.The butcher: by Alina Reyes (Minerva; Rs 240). A student in her summer break goes to work in a butcher' s shop. Day after day the fat butcher whispers obscenities in her ear, till one day she begins to feel the stirrings of passion. A novella of strange, compelling eroticism.Published By: AtMigration Published On: Dec 31, 2012--- ENDS ---
