The Boston Globe, September 13th, 1988
THE TRUTH ABOUT LORIN JONES, by Alison Lurie. Little, Brown. 328 pp. $18.95. The truth about Lorin Jones, Alison Lurie establishes, is that there isn't any. Or that no single truth about anything as complex as a human being can be all-encompassing. Polly Alter, one of the heroines of Lurie's tough-minded and compassionate new novel, thinks she knows the truth about Lorin Jones, an obscure painter who died in 1969 before celebrity overtook her; that's one of the reasons Polly wants to write Jones' biography. Lorin Jones moved in a world of men -- her brother, her art dealer, her husband (who wa...
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