Aided by the printer
From Mr Richard Clayton Sir: I think I can offer a clue to the high sales figures (something like half a million) for Tony Parsons's novel Man and Boy (`Babe friendly', 15 July). While in the UK recently my wife and I both bought copies of the book. I started to read mine last week while on a flight from Mombasa to Tanzania only to find that, by some printing gremlin, after page 90 the first 43 pages of the book are repeated, and the page sequence recom- mences at about page 130. Although annoy- ing, I had nothing else to' read and carried on. I must confess I found the book very moving and almost blubbed on the return flight from Tanzania. I was rather glad it was a small plane and I had no neighbours!
I mentioned the missing 43 pages to my wife and her copy was just the same. There- fore, it is conceivable that Mr Parsons actu-
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ally has a quarter of a million readers who have had to buy two copies of the book in order to read the 'lost' 43 pages.
Richard Clayton
Mombasa, Kenya
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