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The Ambassadors
The Bad Samaritan is a tarragbn-toned novel constructed with the intense precision (though without the comic bravura) which characterised Anne Rider's first book, The Learners.......
It's A Crime•
CELIA FREMLIN'S g arrulous suburbs are always seethin g with repressed violence. In The Jealous One (Gollancz, I5s.), Lindy is the kind of subtle charmer who turns wives into......
The Critics
By MALCOLM BRADBURY T AST year The Times Literary Supplement ran two special issues in which a number of critics, English, European and American, wit- nessed to their views on......