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What Became Of Huckleberry Finn?
14 July 1995 - Page 31Tom Hiney INDEPENDENCE DAY by Richard Ford The Harvill Press, £14.99, pp. 451 W hen a good novelist chooses a boring subject to write about, the results can be exasperating. and as far as boring...Read more
Grace Under Pressure
30 December 2006 - Page 20Michael Carlson T HE F OREIGN C ORRESPONDENT by Alan Furst Weidenfeld, £12.99, pp. 278, ISBN 0297848291 ✆ £10.39 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 I n Alan Furst’s nine novels, it always seems to be...Read more
Death Without A Sting
15 January 1972 - Page 14Nicholas Richardson Nemesis Agatha Christie (Collins £1.50). Panic Colin Spencer (Secker and War. burg £1.90). Who were you with last night? Frederic Raphael (Cape £1.50). Take my Drum to...Read more
An Icon Ill Served
13 October 2001 - Page 56David Hughes A GRAND GUY: THE ART AND LIFE OF TERRY SOUTHERN by Lee Hill Bloomsbuty, 125. pp, 344, ISBN 0747547335 T his is no moan, hut rarely have I spent so long preparing for so short a...Read more
The Shorter The Better
23 November 1991 - Page 38James Buchan THE RUNAWAY SOUL by Harold Brodkey Cape, £15.99, pp. 835 resented with this big, solemn and industrially difficult first novel, British critics have either giggled (these...Read more
Portrait Of A Gentleman
21 November 1992 - Page 44James Buchan HENRY JAMES: THE IMAGINATION OF GENIUS by Fred Kaplan John CurtislHodder & Stoughton, £25, pp. 620 I n the Nation of 11 August 1870, there is an article on the then new summer resort...Read more
