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A Girl From The Prairies

Anne Chisholm WILLA CATHER: A LITERARY LIFE by James Woodress University of Nebraska Press, £33.25 B efore she died, a famous and re- spected novelist, in 1947, Willa Cather......

The Disgusting World Of An Actor

Francis King NEXT SEASON by Michael Blakemore Faber, f4.95 I n a characteristically shrewd and sharp introduction to this novel, first published in 1969 and now reissued in......