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| | Splendid: Departments: Bookshelf: Gaslight |
 | | A fragmentary text composed of both elements of fiction and elements of memoir, Gaslight is the author's attempt to reconcile her often painful past with her current mission -- and, perhaps, to determine the worth of both. |
 | | Gaslight was begun as a preface to that novel (Fat Rosie) and soon spun itself into a new text, a so-called memoir in which Guess utilizes "a fictitious self, a narrator who is neither me nor not me, neither wholly intimate nor wholly other." Guess therefore defies simple criticism. |
 | | At times, Gaslight resembles a writer's notebook, filled with stumbles ("...hair the color of absence...") and achievements ("the kiss, when it came, had all the force of the lost war behind it"). |
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