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But Yet The Pity Of It, Hank

Tom Hiney THE HORSE WHISPERER by Nicholas Evans Bantam, £14.99, pp. 348 R ich woman falls in love with cowboy, has sex with him, but cowboy dies in tragic accident . . . As it......

In Eastbourne, Reading Montale

I'm reminded here of Eugenio Montale, Poet of the little felicities Of marriage and attendant sorrows, Marooned by these cliffs Listening to Delius. In light Like Venetian glass......

The Sound Of A Voice That Is Still At It

D. J. Taylor SABBATH'S THEATER by Philip Roth Cape, 175.99, pp. 451 R eaching the age of 60, an English novelist might nervously set about writing his memoirs or composing one......