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Wild Energy Of A Born Writer

Francis King A ntony Sher may not be the best actor of his generation, but he is certainly the most exciting. The source of that excite- ment is an energy, at once rapturous and......

Heaven Is Not What It Was

Nicholas Lezard HAPPINESS by Theodore Zeldin Collins Harvill, £11.95, pp.320 P art of the problem with this, Theodore Zeldin's first novel, is that the reader has to jettison......

Impressionism All' Italiana

J. A. Gere THE MACCHAIOLI: ITALIAN PAINTERS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY by Norma Broude Yale University Press, £35, pp. 346 S omewhere in every large Italian city is a Galleria......