The Washington Post, March 10th, 2002
A COLLECTION OF BEAUTIES AT THE HEIGHT OF THEIR POPULARITY By Whitney Otto Random House. 283 pp. $23.95 Elodie Parker, Theo Adagio, Grace Maruyama, Roy, Jelly, Coco, Sal and Lucy, Micha, Pirouz, Raphaella, Lenny, Beth -- now who was she again? After the first few pages of A Collection of Beauties at the Height of Their Popularity, Whitney Otto's latest novel, I began to keep a list of the characters. By the end I had 29 names, and was grateful for my list. Otto's title, borrowed from an 18th-century series of Japanese woodblock prints (ukiyo-e), evokes the "floating world" of the Edo pleasure ...
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