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Cocking A Snook At Manhattan

Ian Thomson S UMMER C ROSSING by Truman Capote Allen Lane/ Penguin, £12, pp. 142, ISBN 0713999292 ✆ £9.60 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 B orn in New Orleans in 1924, Truman......

Gongols And Bobfocs

Lloyd Evans F ANBOYS AND O VERDOGS : T HE L ANGUAGE R EPORT by Susie Dent Oxford, £10.99, pp. 163, ISBN 0192806769 V £8.79 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 D ICTIONARY OF C......