Well said, SKB. Let me add that you can find concrete dinosaurs not quite in the middle of, but certainly at the edge of, the desert outside of Los Angeles. Is California quirky? You bet. As SKB suggests, with polite restraint, given the plot of Lulu, Ada would probably be a more likely intertext.  I’ll bet anyone a Euro that the reviewer hasn’t read Ada.  And the reviewer’s bald statement that “Humbert Humbert narrates Lolita out of deepest shame for what he did to an innocent girl “ is certainly open to debate.  I haven’t read Evison’s novel, but I certainly wouldn’t let this superficial review dissuade me from cracking it open up!

 

 

 

Am I alone in finding this review unsatisfactory?