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The Painter Properly Portrayed

Richard Shone W ALTER S ICKERT : A L IFE by Matthew Sturgis HarperCollins, £30, pp. 768, ISBN 0002570831 ✆ £26 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848 W e are continually told that......

Tunnel Of Love Vision

Stephen Abell VILLAGES by John Updike Penguin, £17.99, pp. 321, ISBN 024114308X ✆ £15.99 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848 T im Madden, the narrator of Norman Mailer’s Tough Guys......