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Small But Perfectly Formed

Frank Kermode A FAMILY ROMANCE by Anita Brookner Cape, f14.99, pp. 224 P riority in the use of this title could be claimed by Richard Wollheim, who, in 1969, gave it to an......

Decomposing In The Sterility Of Print

Tom Shone SING THE BODY ELECTRIC by Adam Lively Chatto, £15.99, pp. 440 A . S. Byatt, trying her hand at a dust- jacket puff for Adam Lively's new book, calls it a novel 'which......