A personal history with jigsaws is an original and brilliant work.
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The figure in the carpet is a short story sometimes considered a novella by american writer henry james first published in 1896.
She was initiated into the pleasures of banging bits of coloured wood together by her mother s spinster.
The pattern in the carpet is a discursive loosely organized mix of drabble s memories some but not all of them having to do with solving puzzles and her accounts of her own research into the.
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The pattern in the carpet.
Margaret drabble weaves her own story into a history of games in particular jigsaws which have offered her and many others relief from melancholy and depression.
The pattern in the carpet takes as its organising motif drabble s lifelong love of jigsaws.
The pattern in the carpet.
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The pattern in the carpet her latest non fiction book is subtitled a personal history with jigsaws which makes it sound as though the jigsaw element were a mere embellishment to the memoir.
The figure in the carpet has evaded definitive interpretation.
It is told in the first person.
A personal history with jigsaws is an original and brilliant work.
Margaret drabble weaves her own story into a history of games in particular jigsaws which have offered her and many others relief from melancholy and depression.
In the pattern in the carpet she describes the history of this uniquely british form of meditation from its earliest incarnation in dissected maps which were used as teaching tools in the eighteenth century to the amazing variety of cut outs that have continued to amuse children and adults until the present.