The Waterfall (novel)

The Waterfall is a 1969 novel by British novelist Margaret Drabble. The novel is one of Drabble's more experimental narratives, starting as a third person narrative but quickly dominated by a first person protagonist Jane Gray, to guide the reader through her love affair and life.^[1]

Reception

The New York Times reviewer Maureen Howard gave the novel mixed reviews, suggesting that it wasn't artistic enough.^[1] Howard writes that the novel is missing a "richness of seemingly effortless design, that is missing in Margaret Drabble's work. Like her heroine, she is still confined in a self-conscious world."^[1]

References

1 2 3 Howard, Maureen (November 23, 1969). "The Waterfall". The New York Times Books.

Further reading

Creighton, Joanne V (Jan 1, 1987). "Sisterly Symbiosis: Margaret Drabble's "The Waterfall" and A. S. Byatt's "The Game"". Mosaic. 20 (1).
Zivley, Sherry Lutz (August 30, 2012). "Neurosis and Recovery in Margaret Drabble's The Waterfall". PSYART: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts.

Works by Margaret Drabble

A Summer Bird-Cage (1963)
The Garrick Year (1964)
The Millstone (1965)
Jerusalem the Golden (1967)
The Waterfall (1969)
The Needle's Eye (1972)
London Consequences (1972, with others)
The Realms of Gold (1975)
The Ice Age (1977)
The Middle Ground (1980)
The Oxford Companion to English Literature (1985, 2000)
The Radiant Way (1987)
A Natural Curiosity (1989)
The Gates of Ivory (1991)
The Witch of Exmoor (1996)
The Peppered Moth (2001)
The Seven Sisters (2002)
The Red Queen (2004)
The Sea Lady (2006)
The Pure Gold Baby (2013)

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