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Grace Still Under Pressure

John de Falbe THE COLLECTED STORIES OF RICHARD YATES by Richard Yates Methuen, £17.99, pp. 472, ISBN 0413771253 I f Richard Yates is known at all in this country, it is as the......

The Trappings And The Suits Of Woe

Lucinda Lambton VIGOR MORTIS by Kate Berridge Profile Books, £17.99, pp. 283, ISBN 186197177X V igor Mortis is a triumph, an exhilaratingly original, scholarly and strange — as......