“We are such stuff as dreams are made on: and our little life is rounded with a sleep,” cries Prospero in Shakespeare’s The Tempest—from which play Rumer Godden took the story of this novel, A Breath of Air. In cast of character and plot structure, parallels are certainly present—Mr. van Loomis is the novel’s magician and ruler; Charis, his literate, island-bound daughter, is Miranda; the playwright Valentine is Ferdinand; and the exiled, brutish Mario is Caliban. Yet the novel transcends its ow...
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