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Plots, True Or False, Are Necessary Things

Mark Ills DECEPTION by Philip Roth Cape, £12.95, pp.208 TEMPLES OF DELIGHT by Barbara Trapido Michael Joseph, £13.99, pp.317 THE CIRCUS ANIMALS by James Plunkett Hutchinson,......

The Return Of The Beast

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