'Harrower was right about In Certain Circles being well written, but surely wrong to take its superb style for granted, as if mere literary muscle memory...The book belongs with her best work, with The Watch Tower and The Long Prospect ... It] is more explicit than Harrower's earlier work about ideological tensions between men and women. It is also broader in scope and not as angry--wiser and less hopeless.' James Wood, New Yorker 'Like a treasure...