Books: In the White Room

Rupert Thomson's The Book of Revelation hauntingly recounts a bizarre captivity

Rupert Thomson's five novels have earned him the status of a cult figure, at least in the British press, but the London-based author, 44, now seems to be bidding for a somewhat more remunerative title, as in "best seller." Thomson's sixth novel, The Book of Revelation (Knopf; 260 pages; $23), ought to widen considerably the circle of his readership on both sides of the Atlantic. His new book, like its predecessors, conveys bizarre, surrealistic events with understated, laconic precision, but the principal subject this time out is that fail-safe crowd pleaser, kinky sex.

Thomson's unnamed protagonist is a dancer, 29, with...

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