Words and pictures – Ali Bacon / Books Etc

December 4, 2017January 24, 2018

Picture Palace by Paul Theroux (Photography in Fiction #2)

A few months ago I wrote about William Boyd’s Sweet Caress (a badly named novel if ever there was!) with the intention of looking at other novels with photography as a theme or backdrop. The one I had in mind was Paul Theroux’s Picture Palace. I read this and quite a few other Theroux books … Continue reading Picture Palace by Paul Theroux (Photography in Fiction #2)

August 7, 2017January 24, 2018

Photography in fiction (1): Other people’s photos

I’ve just been reading William Boyd’s Sweet Caress which I picked up when I spotted its photography connections. It’s about a girl growing up in the twenties who, after a family trauma, joins her uncle as a society photographer in London then unshackles herself from an unhealthy relationship to reinvent herself several times over and … Continue reading Photography in fiction (1): Other people’s photos