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Doris Lessing • 72 Items / 41 Books, 28 Articles, 2 Reviews, 1 Poem
The Temptation of Jack Orkney, and Other Stories (1972)
by Doris Lessing
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Published Reviews
  1. [+]
    Manhunts (2 Reviews)
    Zahir Jamal
    To Room Nineteen, by Doris Lessing
    1. To Room Nineteen by Doris Lessing
    2. The Temptation of Jack Orkney, and Other Stories by Doris Lessing
    The New Statesman, June 30, 1978, p. 888
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    Fiction (3 Reviews)
    Guy Davenport
    Temptations
    1. Sadness by Donald Barthelme
    2. Museums and Women, and Other Stories by John Updike
    3. The Temptation of Jack Orkney, and Other Stories by Doris Lessing
    National Review, December 22, 1972, p. 1413
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    Playboys and a Working Woman (3 Reviews)
    Roger Sale
    Semi-Tough, by Dan Jenkins
    1. Semi-Tough by Dan Jenkins
    2. Edwin Mullhouse by Steven Millhauser
    3. The Temptation of Jack Orkney, and Other Stories by Doris Lessing
    The New York Review of Books, January 25, 1973, pp. 42-43
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    In Brief (4 Reviews)
    The Temptation of Jack Orkney, and Other Stories, by Doris Lessing
    1. The Temptation of Jack Orkney, and Other Stories by Doris Lessing
    2. Living Poor with Style by Ernest Callenbach
    3. Ayisha by Helen Noga
    4. Learning from Las Vegas by Robert Venturi, Steven Izenour, and Denise Scott Brown, ...
    The New Republic, December 2, 1972, pp. 24-25
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    Fantastic Eschatologies (6 Reviews)
    Tom Paulin
    To Room Nineteen, by Doris Lessing
    1. To Room Nineteen by Doris Lessing
    2. The Temptation of Jack Orkney, and Other Stories by Doris Lessing
    3. Success by Martin Amis
    4. Kalki by Gore Vidal
    5. The Bass Saxophone by Josef Skvorecky
    6. The Public Burning by Robert Coover
    Encounter, September 1978, pp. 73-77
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    Short Reviews: Books (12 Reviews)
    Phoebe Adams
    The Odessa File, by Frederick Forsyth
    1. The Odessa File by Frederick Forsyth
    2. Waiting for the Morning Train by Bruce Catton
    3. A Universal History of Infamy by Jorge Luis Borges
    4. The Temptation of Jack Orkney, and Other Stories by Doris Lessing
    5. The Age of Kipling by John Gross
    6. The Hidden Injuries of Class by Richard Sennett and Jonathan Cobb
    7. Somewhere Else by Robert Kotlowitz
    8. The Making of a Psychiatrist by David S. Viscott
    9. Amphigorey by Edward Gorey
    10. Treasures of the Armada by Robert Stenuit
    11. Erotic Art Today by Volker Kahmen
    12. The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam
    The Atlantic Monthly, December 1972, pp. 144-154
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    Long Novels and Short Stories (15 Reviews)
    William H. Pritchard
    August 1914, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
    1. August 1914 by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
    2. Transparent Things by Vladimir Nabokov
    3. Turkey Hash by Craig Nova
    4. Quake by Rudolph Wurlitzer
    5. Margins by David Kranes
    6. The Satyr by Robert DeMaria
    7. Long Division by Anne Richardson Roiphe
    8. Necessary Objects by Lois Gould
    9. Edwin Mullhouse by Steven Millhauser
    10. The Sunlight Dialogues by John Gardner
    11. Sinning with Annie by Paul Theroux
    12. Sadness by Donald Barthelme
    13. The Temptation of Jack Orkney, and Other Stories by Doris Lessing
    14. Museums and Women, and Other Stories by John Updike
    15. Amphigorey by Edward Gorey
    The Hudson Review, Spring 1973, pp. 225-240