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When He Was Up He Was Up

Raymond Carr WHERE THE RIVERS MEET by John Wain Hutchinson, £12.95, pp. 563 T his novel has two themes: the sexual strains of late adolescence and the prob- lems which a......

How The East Is Being Won

Euan Cameron `VIDEO NIGHT IN KATHMANDU' AND OTHER REPORTS FROM THE NOT-SO-FAR EAST by Pico Iyer Bloomsbury, £14.95, pp. 384 I n one of the more bizarre of many odd encounters in......