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Using Every Man After His Desert

Francis King TOO FAR FROM HOME by Paul Bowles Peter Owen, £13.50, pp. 93 T he publishers describe this book as `Paul Bowles's first novel for 25 years'. But large print, wide......

And Notes Tremendous Too

Amit Chaudhuri COLLECTED POEMS by John Updike Hamish Hamilton, £20, pp. 387 T he poems in this collection, says Updike in his Preface, are 'the thready backside of [his] life's......