E.M. Forster was a virgin at 37, and his tortuous path toward sexual maturity is a main plotline of "Arctic Summer," Damon Galgut's brilliant biographical novel. Its epigraph quotes Forster at age 74: ...

The novelist E.M. Forster lived to the great old age of 91, but by the cultural calendar, his life was even longer. He was born in the starchy days of high-collar Victorian England and died in the Age ...

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Arctic Summer. By Damon Galgut. Atlantic Books; 356 pages; £17.99. To be published in America by Europa Editions in September; $17. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk THERE have been several ...