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Black At The End Of The Tunnel

Laurence Lerner THE ESSENTIAL GESTURE by Nadine Gordimer Cape, f15, pp. 352 WHITE WRITING by J.M. Coetzee Yale, f14.95, pp. 208 S outh Africa's two leading novelists have both......

Virtues And Vices Of A Young Writer

Francis King THE CAPTAIN AND THE ENEMY by Graham Greene Reinhardt Books, £10.95, pp. 192 T he obvious thing to say about Graham Greene's new novel, published in his mid-......