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Anita Brookner EVER AFTER by Graham Swift Picador, f14.99, pp. 261 A ntonia Byatt's Possession, it seems, has given birth to a genre. A contemporary narrator, of a professional,......

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the same boat John Spurling THE SHIPYARD by Juan Carlos Onetti, translated by Nick Caistor Serpent's Tail, f8.99, pp.186 M any Latin-American novelists have been called in the......