cover image Foxybaby

Foxybaby

Elizabeth Jolley. Penguin Books, $5.95 (272pp) ISBN 978-0-14-008380-4

Dowdy Alma Porch arrives at a school where she will teach drama to students whose primary goal is to lose weight during the month-long session. While the novel is intentionally, but not successfully, absurd, Australian Jolley ""offers some provocative reflections on loneliness, self-delusion, role-playing and the always blurred line between reality and imagination,'' PW observed. (October)