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One Woman At One Time Plays Many Parts

Anne Chisholm SPLITTING by Fay Weldon . HarperCollins, £14.99, pp. 265 F ay Weldon's novels, including this one, are not as weird as they at first appear. For some time now —......

An Aristocrat Of The Left

Anthony Howard THE GOLDEN AGE IS IN US: JOURNEYS AND ENCOUNTERS, 1987-1994 by Alexander Cockburn Verso, £19.95, pp. 434 T his is an unusual and stimulating book. It is not, as......

Waiting For Another Masterpiece

Byron Rogers THE END OF THE HUNT by Thomas Flanagan Sinclair-Stevenson, £14.99, pp. 627 I have waited a long time for this. In 1979 Thomas Flanagan, a middle-aged American......